Original content vs resteeming

It's difficult to find my rhythm on Steemit, but I think I am working it out.

My favourite social platform until now has been Twitter (@DrWom) and I still really like it. But it has a very different rhythm than Steemit. ReTweeting is a totally legitimate way to tweet, and together with the original tweets you do, it somehow helps to define you and attract followers.

But now I've had a chance to settle in at Steemit (get my feet under the desk - as one of my favourite former bosses put it), I think that is how I have been approaching Steemit.

At this point I should acknowledge @scooter77 who warned me against resteeming too much - he likened it to spam.

I took that to mean that for those of us who think we have something original to contribute, if we resteem everything we like we will make it really difficult for those fellow steemers who are looking for authenticity, for our authenticity, to find it.

I am really grateful to have learnt that so early.

So I am going to aim at a 2:1 ratio, original content to resteem. It will mean that I will have to restrain myself (discipline!) and only resteem things that are totally awesome.

I think it's important for me to say here, though, that I think curating is a totally legitimate thing to do on Steemit - it's just not what I want to do. I don't want it to define my presence here.

My other issue is being too generous with my upvotes - again it's the twitterer in me.

But that's a discussion for another time.

Stay tuned!