GROB testing booth stories has nearly 60,000 Facebook reaches
Facebook loves a good story.
It's not yet 24 hours old, but the Icon's story about GROB Systems creating and donating 11 testing booths to hospitals in Bluffton, Lima and Findlay experienced an Icon milestone as a hit on Facebook.
As of 2:20 on Thursday the story, also posted on the Icon Facebook has experienced 58,872 reaches, had 8,748 people engaged with the story, had 457 shares, 411 "likes" and 39 comments.
This makes it by far the Icon's most well-received story of 2020 and it is closing in on the Facebook post of the deer crashing into Luke's several years ago. To put this story in perspective, the Icon posts about six times a day with average post reaches of 1,000 from our 3,500+ Facebook followers.
• Anything above 1,000 we consider a successful story.
• Anything above 2,000, we consider a home run.
• This rates the GROB story a home run somewhere in the outer reaches of the Kulper Belt, closing in on Nepture and beyond.
As a comparision, the following stories were posted on Facebook earlier this week and received above average reaches:
2,310 Bluffton police K-9 on sick leave
2,609 Icon teddy bear map includes 80 locations (by now it is over 100 locations)
2,132 Blanchard Valley Health System COVIS-10 update on Facebook live
Stories Posted This Week
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Phyllis Ann Reynolds, 77, worked at Citizens National Bank
- Jane Ann (Diller) Thurman, 75, was a nursing home administrator
- Julie C. (Field) Amstutz worked for Putnam County ESC
- Pirate volleyball sweep vs. Wayne Trace
- Findlay Patrol's Donovan promoted to sergeant
- Pirate girls soccer win vs. Delphos Jefferson
- Sept. 14 Bluffton Council: Request for RTA bus signs, pre-1950s unused Maple Grove plots tallied
- Mornings with Mommy resume at Trinity Lutheran
Monday, September 14, 2026
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
- Mennonite Home Communities provide backup phone numbers during outage
- Pirate volleyball wins in four vs. Elmwood
- Howard Thornsberry worked in the produce industry
- Pirate girls soccer silenced by Bath
- Pirate boys soccer nipped by Liberty-Benton
- Sept. 12 Open Doors offers sneak peek at future Bluffton museum space
- Innovation Forum challenges leaders to think deeper about AI
- Invitation to Sept 15 Bluffton Lions program with Dr. William H. Kose
- Deer archery hunting begins Sept. 12 in Disease Surveillance Area