In an essay entitled ''How the Atheist Movement Failed Me'', an [[atheism and women|atheist woman]] noted that participation in the atheist community is often expensive due to the cost of attending atheist conferences and even local atheist meetings in restaurants and bars challenged her modest budget.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/08/10/how-the-atheist-movement-failed-me-part-1-cost/ How the Atheist Movement Failed Me – Part 1: Cost]</ref> As a result of the challenges that atheists commonly have in terms of socializing in person, many atheists turn to the internet in terms of communicating with other atheists.
In comparison to many religious groups, which have many meetings in numerous places in a given day or week which are convenient to attend, atheist meetings are sparse. One of the causes of this situation is the apathy of many atheists (see: [[Atheism and apathy]]). Atheist Francois Tremblay wrote about the difficulty of motivating atheists to engage in activities related to atheism: "One last problem that undermines any propagation of atheism is inspiration. Let's be honest here, "there is no god!" is not a very motivating call for most people." (see also: [[Atheism is uninspiring]]).<ref>[http://www.liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/herdingcats.html Herding Cats: Why Atheism Will Lose] by Francois Tremblay</ref> == Internet atheism web traffic levels == During the period of 2008 to 2012, the [[Atheist Population|atheist community]] made a concerted effort to spread [[atheism]] through means of the internet. However, leading atheist websites saw plunges in web traffic during this same period and during the first half of 2012.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!]</ref> In 2015, [[Freethoughtblogs]], a collection of atheist bloggers, saw a significant decline in web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com#/trafficCard Freethoughtblog.com uses Quantcast to measure their web traffic and the demograghhics of their web visitors - Click to see report]</ref>
An article entitled ''[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/internet-atheism-and-skepticism-thrill.html Internet atheism: The thrill is gone!]'' declares:
[[YouTube]], the most popular video site on the Net for young people, is one of their primary avenues for passing off their secularist propaganda.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55789</ref>}}
Atheism internet outreach efforts, however, [[Ineffectiveness and weakness of atheist internet outreach|have been very ineffective]].
== Google trends - Atheism and agnosticism terms ==
Beginning in the 1980s and accelerating in 2011 and beyond, atheism, [[agnosticism]] and [[evolution|Darwinism]] have developed a reputation of cowardice. See: [[Atheism and cowardice]] and [[Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]] and [[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]
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== Internet atheism evangelism contrasted with Christian internet evangelism ==
=== The online message of Christianity vs. the online messaging of internet atheism ===
Unlike [[Christianity]], which is supported by [[Christian apologetics|which is supported by a large body of sound evidence]] (see: [[Christian apologetics]]), atheism [[Attempts to dilute the definition of atheism|has no proof and evidence supporting its ideology]]. Also, there have been notable atheists conceding there is compelling evidence for the existence of [[God]] and becoming [[ex-atheist]]. As a result, atheism often relies on asserting fragile assumptions that are contrary to the existing evidence.<ref>
*[http://www.examiner.com/x-19682-Atlanta-Church--Culture-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Arguments-Built-upon-Assumptions]
*[http://www.examiner.com/x-19682-Atlanta-Church--Culture-Examiner~y2009m8d10-Atheisms-house-of-cards-Part-3]