The Steem Life: You're Adopted

The Steem Life is a series of articles that highlight my journey so far and hopefully motivate others.

Previous Episodes:

• Welcome to The Steem Life
• It Starts with an Introduction
• The Lonely Road
• Strategic Spamming and Learning

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The Onion Society

Interacting with the community was very important for my growth on the platform.
My major challenge back then was the fact that I didn't receive notifications.
This was a bit of a chore at the time because I didn't know about Discord. Like I said earlier, Steem blockchain is an onion society; it is a community with communities embedded in it. They all interact with each other to create this dynamic ecosystem we live in.

Gina Changed My Life

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Meeting Gina stands out as the single most important thing I did during my Steem adventure. I really struggled with steem because of the absence of notification. I felt like the community wasn't doing enough to keep me active and I often missed out on a lot of things that a simple reminder would have solved.

Friends with benefit

This all changed when I encountered this amazing girl called @ginabot. If you're new to the platform or still trying to adjust to Steem, I advise you get in touch with her because she makes it easy to settle in. With Gina you can;

• Get notified whenever your favourite Authors drop a post and use the good old fashion strategic spamming technique
• Be notified whenever your username is mentioned on Steem blockchain
• Track certain tags that are of interest to you
• Get notification for wallet activities
• Notification for when you're followed, upvoted and downvotes as well.

Like I pointed out earlier, Discord is the key to enjoying Steem Community and that's where you interact with @ginabot. There are many posts detailing how to register with @ginabot but here is a quick rundown to save you the time (source)

• Download, install and register discord on your mobile or PC. Use the same username with your Steem for uniformity
• Join the discord serve here
• Go to #registeration in the server
• Type ..reg yourUsername. Here's an example below
  
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• You will then send 0.001SBD or Steem to @ginabot prove that it is your account. Your token will actually be refunded because it is absolutely Free.
• You will instantly be contacted by Ginabot privately to start a conversation. Click on that link and you'll be taken to a magical portal where you can customize her to your taste.

Long way to go

Every day I wake up, I think of how I can best my self. I found my creative juices flowing more than they ever did before. This attitude slowly seeped into other aspects of my life and I have this community to thank for that.

Steem is a business as much as it is a community. There's a high level of mutual respect between members of the society and I really appreciate that too. Engagement is relatively low nowadays and that's closely related to the general drop in price.

The good old days feel like such a long time ago. I don't know what the future holds for this community but I keep going, hoping for the best, being steadfast to my journey to becoming a Whale and hopefully give back to this community that changed everything. This is The Steem Life

The Steem Life is a series of articles that highlight my journey so far and hopefully motivate others.

Previous Episodes:

• Welcome to The Steem Life
• It Starts with an Introduction
• The Lonely Road
• Strategic Spamming and Learning

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