Steemit, MSP and Me!

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Everyone has different reasons for coming to steemit, some come here to make a fast buck...some in order to better their writing skills while others just to read quality content. For me, steemit is a mix of two things...one being a place where I can better my writing content and share my thoughts. What I mean with that is...to me steemit is more like an online journal where I can talk about whatever it is that I like or dislike and get to know other people's opinions of it.

The second reason why I use steemit is that I want to be able to experience making cash...not a lot but as much as I can. I am not bothered by the fact that some posts make very little money while others make a lot. I just want to do it for fun and still get something out of it.

You know there are a lot of people out there who just come to steemit, post spam content and even plagiarize content from others thinking they can make money with it but that's not how it works. I read a few posts on steemit today, talking about people getting disappointed with the number of users that are coming here and posting spam. That is something one cannot avoid in any platform, there is no way to restrict a user from just posting a one liner and a picture.

In my honest opinion, I think it must have been something that they liked and really wanted to share with the world...who knows? right?. Anyways I am getting a bit off topic here...I wanted to talk about my experience so far on steemit and a very helpful community that I found MSP.

What is MSP? It is minnow support program and some people introduced me to it on the same day that I made my first post on Steemit. The people at minnow support program wanted to help minnows who were starting out and get themselves settled on this platform. For us minnows when we are starting out, it is really difficult to get a good follower base and I don't want to be running around asking people to follow me or vice versa. I want to focus on the writing part and build an organic followership.

People at MSP had been very helpful at that especially my friend @sammosk, who at the time I joined steemit...I didn't know was part of the program. Once again, through him I learned a lot, I learned about steemit and how it works...what the MSP program is and why it is there.

It isn't there to benefit them but to benefit us small fishes against those who have more power here; the whales and the dolphins. Sometimes one person can easily feel disappointed when they see that their precious posts are not getting any appreciation but the people at MSP has always helped me out by telling me how I should improve myself.

How I can get myself to find good audiences and not only that...they have also helped me to slowly rise out of being a minnow. I am still a minnow but with a helping hand, hopefully, one day I will be a dolphin and maybe...just maybe a whale who can go on to help others with the MSP program.