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I am pleasantly shocked to find I have over 80 followers as of this morning! My steemit followers now outnumber my facebook followers! To celebrate, I just wanted to do something for all of you. Yet while I do know a few of you, I realized that for many of you, I don't know who you are, but I want to. Sadly, very few of you told me you were following me. That's the only reason why I haven't followed you back. To make matters worse, there isn't any way for me to figure this out easily!
I like knowing people can hear me. I know you have your reasons for following me and those are entirely your own.
What I want to know is "Who are you?" "How are you doing?" "What's important to you?"
While there isn't a tool on this site that lets me know who my followers are, I still want to get to know you!
Most importantly, I would like everyone else to get to know you.
That's why I made this posting!
For everyone who is feeling shy, who doesn't want to step up and tell us about your latest post and what things you are interested in. I thought I might share something from one of my favorite youtubers.
So...
To all of my followers, thank you everyone!
One final thing...
The image at the top is taken from an incredible photo essay I stumbled on while searching out some images for this post and ended up sucking me in, it's just fantastic!
Murad Osmann's journey around the world with his girlfriend! The journey which started in Barcelona on October 2011, has seen the couple traveling from Moscow to Hong Kong, Venice,Singapore and Bali.
I love photography, I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic and this essay captivated me. They hold hands as they cross the globe together. This type of thing speaks to me and is a nice change of pace, so I figured I would share it with you as well. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
p.s. As it turns out, although following works, I did just notice that my feed isn't updating if I was following you before "following" was fixed. So try to follow them again and see if your feed updates. If it does, then let your friends know so they don't feel ignored.
I'm a bit late to the party but wanted to pop up and reveal myself as one of your followers. Thanks for doing an outreach post like this, and for sharing that video - I like what he said about releasing the fear of being judged.
Looking forward to your future posts. Cheers!
@runaway-psyche Well this party runs for the next 30 days. So there's no such thing as late to the party.
Glad to see you here. I wasn't following you before because I didn't know you were following me. But I just checked out some posts of yours including the trip to Zion's park and I remember our lively conversation.
Your writing skills have improved remarkably and they weren't shabby to begin with.
I'm especially impressed with your latest posting https://steemit.com/psychology/@runaway-psyche/the-art-of-non-contradiction-in-relationships-a-is-a
It was very insightful. I upvoted and will probably stop by and drop a comment or two in the next day or two as I process everything you're saying. Great work, and nice to see you again!
Thank you, I really appreciate hearing that! I'm still experimenting with writing styles and content topics while trying to find my niche here. I'm glad my article was of some interest to you, and I'll check for your comment in the near future.
I remember our Zion conversation as well and still intend on doing a harm-reduction post sometime in the near future, thanks to you. :)
In the meantime, I'll stay tuned to your feed - loving your work so far!
great post thanks
@aavkc Thank you! I really appreciate that!
I like Murad Osmann's journey. Just need to think with another point of view. That makes you unique ;)
@alexoz Thanks! I agree. There are so many travellogs & blogs etc where the person doing the authoring is the subject of every photo, every post. I think Osmann's work is fantastic because he clearly loves his subject enough to follow her around the world! How many of us can say that if our lover, spouse or significant other, wanted to travel the world that we would drop everything and grab the camera to follow them?
Actually there is a way to find out who your followers are and who you follow! Have you heard of @jesta's SteemStats? If you haven't, it's one of the most important tools for Steemians. If you have, maybe you've missed the top bar's Accounts > Followed By.
@bitcoiner Ok thanks! I did remember seeing that before and it was in the back of my mind. It really needs to be a tool here on the site though. My point was about the site not letting me so who my friends are. I've set m feed page to my home page now. And since it wasn't updating except for a few people I had recently followed, that was one reason for the p.s. Was shocked to discover it.
All of the pages on steemit do not update live. You have to manually refresh them. With SteemStats, you can enable desktop notifications so that whenever there is a new post by a follower, or someone votes or comments on your comments or posts, you will instantly know!
@bitcoiner Wow! he's done a lot of work on SteemStats.com
I've bookmarked it now.
Incidentally I thought I was following you before. Guess I wasn't, anyways I'm following you now!
There's also steem-o-graph.com which you can also click into other users to see their followers too. :)
@sykochica That's great info and thanks! Glad to see you here BTW.
Love all your stuff and now following is finally, I've refollowed you, so as soon as my voting power recharges you can expect a flurry of upvotes, because for whatever reason, you and I seem to think a lot alike.
Your Steemtopia looks like a lot of fun! It was one catalyst for me running this.
Also everyone keep in mind that this blog is #payitforward enabled (as is @sykochica 's) this #payitforward is an invitation to come in, even if the content/topic isn't normally your thing and in exchange for reading her stuff, the other players are agreeing to read your stuff as well. Just leave some intelligent commentary and link to make it easier to find you.
Also these offsite tools are great and I am super glad to be aware of them. But I want to get to know all of my followers.
I would rather have everyone become friends organically and so this is an explicit invite to talk about you and your interests.
Literally anyone reading this post actually want's to know about you, cuz they've already been watching me and the title is "come meet others" :)
Come out of your shell and say hello! I promise we won't bite and there is literally no such thing as link spam in here. If it's relevant to you it's relevant to this topic. Please do share!
So if you're reading this
It's all about you!
Fair enough :)
Long story short, I'm complicated.
I've never been able to fully subscribe to any system for many of the reasons I believe @williambanks has fallibility concerns with utopia/dystopias, because nothing is perfect for everybody. I see people and constantly changing self organizing systems, but I'm fascinated to find out about the core that such a system originally grew from. Robert Anton Wilson says it best, "non simultaneously apprehended interactive processing."
I hold my hope for humanity tight, as hard as that can be sometimes, trying to find a way to implement a better world. Hence my steemtopia project. I can see the potential Steemit can provide to move us in a more desirable direction. I don't have all the answers and never will, which is why I seek discussion.
It's all about being BETTER and not RIGHT. :)
Feel free to follow me or hit me up at @sykochica if you like these sort of discussions.
thanks @bitcoiner
You had me following you since my first Steemit day. Keep posting great work.
@silverbug2000 You've had my follow since day one too. Your piece about CTR & SARS in the banking industry was great info, and I'm glad I could chime in.
I found this one you made yesterday to be even better. https://steemit.com/money/@silverbug2000/the-bank-and-your-home-equity-line-of-credit-trouble-ahead
Sure needs more people looking at it. That type of information needs to trend and that's why I've refollowed you. You weren't showing up in my feed before.
Thanks again.
Tis my first day here and I have found you! I love your post and look forward to reading more of them
@bohemianrkchick Thanks! Glad you liked it. Looking forward to seeing the great content you will be producing. Welcome to steemit! You're now on my follow list :)
I am proud to be one of them William! Shyness really held me back but once I got over it, holy shit I was a new man.
@hilarski Yes i totally agree with this. Shyness, lack of self confidence, feelings of not being worthy, all use to stop me from being the friend I needed to be to my friends. Online or IRL. About 10 years ago someone shook me at a party to celebrate something I had been a major part of. He said "Bill! Why the hell are you being shy! This is our moment!"
See I didn't realize I was being shy.
I figured I was pretty normal and just being polite. Trying not to bother people by being that guy.
The next day I looked in the mirror and found a way to turn that off. Same techniques the guy in Charisma on Command recommends actually, which is why I linked his video.
Anyways, I started approaching people. Asking them questions, talking to them and being a genuine friend instead of being so damned self absorbed all the time and worried what other people were thinking.
I was shocked to find that some people really like me and you know what? Some people really don't!
But as long as I can find a way to try, then the feeling of helping others always provides me with something I can't even begin to measure!
New man is exactly correct!
I am literally not the same man who could walk into a crowded room and feel all alone, just a decade ago.
@hilarski I am now proud to say I am one of your followers too! Glad to meet you!
Meoooow, I've followed you, @williambanks
I noticed you had a lot of cool posts, so I had to make sure I'd see more! Heheh.
Anyways, have a nice day! ^,^
@heretickitten Thanks! I really appreciate it! You've got some great stuff too. Like I said in your post on the coma recovery patient. That stuff fascinates me to no end.
Hey!
This thing about traveling together with your significant other is really touched me, because I'm lucky to be in such a journey too - but more by the sea, than the land (we are sailors).
Glad to see you here, your enthusiasm is contagious!
@zaebars Well now you mention it, I love to see your travels. My whole life I've wanted to buy a boat an sail the seas. Lived on an island once and I miss the ocean dearly.
It does give me a sense of satisfaction to know that I reached out and touched someone thousands of miles away, simply by sharing something that also touched me.
Which island it was? I'm also living on an island, just curious
I honestly couldn't tell why, but I've been following you ever since steemstats.com became functional and I had to go through my txt-file list of people to follow to actually "follow" them on-chain by hand.
Great photo, totally threw me off for a second :)
@akareyon Wow! I'm floored and thank you. If you've been following me, then you know when I say I'm speechless I really mean it!
How did you become such an incredible author?
https://steemit.com/steemit/@akareyon/paul-lafargue-the-right-to-be-lazy-1883-appetite-as-an-economical-factor
What's driving you to write great material like this? It's fascinating and well written. Thought provoking and insightful.
I'm going to read the rest of your material tomorrow because it's late, but that one was just, wow!
I think it was Bot Warz. I'm an anti-ismist, consequently very skeptical towards transhumanism. There was a MySpace page once, ignoranceisntbliss it was, I believe, and he presented all the semi-secret DARPA research.
But I agreed with every point; I am looking forward to the steem interface that gives users total filter control over the streem.
I grew up in the town where Otto Bock researches on and manufactures their world-reknown prosthestics, making their money to a large extent from the weapon exports of other German industries. At the same time, I still hold on to the idea I had of the internet around 2000 A.D.: that it could be the tool that helps humanity unite, and come to the consensus that nobody really likes war anyway and we might as well stop that shit for a year and so and sit together and think.
After the Web 2.0 disaster, Steemit renewed that hope, and for a change, I throw all the energy I used to squander in pointless forum debates into some content that I believe needs to be carved into the eternal chain.
Thank you a lot! There is another book I'd like to present, but I'll have to re-read it first: bolo'bolo, my favourite anarchist utopia :)