/r/Midessa offers slow traffic but reflects community

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So while the Reddit pages for Austin and San Antonio are raking in thousands of readers, Midland-Odessa’s page, /r/Midessa, hangs in there, serving its 660 plus readers with obscure requests for shooting buddies to speculation on the newest oil bust.

For those still relying on just Facebook and Twitter for social media consumption, Reddit is a lucrative and popular social media site that operates similar to message boards of the early 2000s. People, not media or corporations, dictate the topics to be discussed in separate pages dedicated to a city, topic, hobby or industry. Name anything you can think of; it probably has a Reddit page.

So for our area, we have /r/Midessa, a small online community that reflects the actual Midland and Odessa in every way. The Midessa page, or subreddit, has slower traffic compared to major cities, the recurring topics are about oil and road conditions, and the commenters are generally non-confontational and friendly. Just take a look at the positivity on this topic for the upcoming Midland On Tap beer festival^1. If this was on Facebook or mrt.com, people would instead be talking about alcohol as the disintegration of our society.

And quite honestly, sometimes you can find news break on Reddit, including /r/Midessa, before actual news outlets report on it. I personally did not know about The Blue Door’s scotch tasting on the 19th until I saw it on Reddit.

Take a look for yourself.^2

^1

http://www.reddit.com/r/Midessa/comments/2rteq1/midland_on_tap_craft_beer_festival

^2

http://www.reddit.com/r/Midessa/