Is Steemit a friendships circle?
Okay, the title has been written down, now the rest of the post. It is a question where I, to be honest, don't have the answer on. But I would like to share my ideas about it.
The start
When you start on Steemit, there are 2 possibilities.
- Like in my case, you don't know anybody and start to create a community.
- You were recruited by friend(s) who already had/have a Steemit account and you just roll in to their community/friends circle.
The middle
Once you have created a group of followers and a list of people interested to follow, your feed is started to fill up. Depending on the amount of Steemains you follow, you will have enough posts to browse through to fill up the amount of hours/minutes you are willing to spend here! Also when you do post, your post will be placed on the feed of your followers.
The friendship circle
At this moment, you will get some comments, you will have enough to comment on or to upvote.
But probably the comments you are getting are mostly from the same followers (your Steem friends) and probably you will upvote most of the time, the same authors.
I have to say that there is nothing wrong with this. I am, partly in the same situation. I do upvote some posts of Steem Friends without reading them, I do comment on 50% of the posts which do occur in my feed. Just like some of my followers, are using automated votes so they don't read my posts. It like scratching each others back. But was this the real idea behind Steem?
But here is nothing wrong with this!
The community around you, is probably a result of shared interests. Hopefully it was not build based on the follow-you-follow-me principle. So, it is all natural behavior.
But this is also some kind of problem. Most of us, stop to find new friends.
So how do you created new friends circles or expand the ones you are having at the moment?
The new posts
Most of us occasionally browse through the Hot, trending or promoted tags. But how much of us, really browse through the new tag?
Well, according to me, we should do this at least once a day. Most of the post here, are written by people you don't know. These authors could have a shared interest with you, or are just writing post which could be really interesting. By placing genuine comments on the post they wrote, will expand the friends circle. Don't look at reputation or there Steem Power. Ignore this for once. For all we know, these also could be the new whales. They could be just experimenting here, to see if they like it or not, and could have the plans to power up hugely, if they do plan to stay here!
Commenting on comments
This is a hidden gem. Probably you did place a comment on a post, to start an interaction because you like the article. We, often, do comment and then wait on a reply. When using busy, we will be notified, we using Steemit, you will browse to the replies tag. Why don't you read the other comments?
These people also did like the article or could be having a complete different viewpoint. By replying on these comments, you could expand your circle of friends! Because you both were interested in the same article, there is already a shared interest.
Back to the circle of friends!
I'm drifting a little bit. From asking to the question, to state this I did not have the answer, to find out that I do have to respond positive in the question!
Yes, Steemit is one or more circle of friends. Belonging to a friends circle will increase the visibility, will increase the chance of being upvoted, or more important to have interaction.
But don't walk in circles, have to courage to find new Steemians, who could become a member of an existing or new friendships circle. Expand your horizons, it will not disappoint you!
What are you ideas about this?
Do you browse randomly through the new posts or do you stick with a predefined set of tags.
Or you do only read and comment on the post, who do appear on your feed?
Keep the faith,
Peter
I do little bit of all together that you wrote. But I upvote only if I see that writer put some effort in post and that post have sense even if I disagree with some things inside.
I like to disagree, not on your comment but in general!
Some of the best interactions are born from this. If we both wouldn’t have done this, we would not belong to the same circle of friends 😎
👍😁
This idea will only grow with the implementation of the community concept. Of course, that is the goal...just to have a bigger circle.
As you know, I believe commenting is the way to go....it is how people get to "know" one on here. Those who do not comment are not going to have a lot of success unless they bring a large following over.
Thx for reading the post.
Indeed creating the bigger circle is the way to go. But we must also be careful not to over estimated the number. I rather have 10 followers who do interact with me, then 1000 followers just for the number.
Commenting is a hidden value in Steemit. I would never be capable of achieving, the small thing that I did achieve, without placing genuine comments and interaction!
It's funny that I have created my own community as you said in the intro, but I get the most upvotes from the same persons that are not my friends...About the trending page I can only say that there are a few very good posts that deserve the "trending status" mixed with a lot of highly paid ones that are not...trendy at all. Anyway I will follow your advice and keep my faith in the platform since I came with big expectations on it from the first time.
I must admit I only really read stuff about trading on here, I use other sites for other stuff I'm interested in, like gaming and pinup art.
I only use the 'new' section, and only in things I'm interested in like created/trading or created/finance. The other 3 sections are a waste of time, just the same 3 or 4 whales spamming the same rubbish with paid upvotes.
I find a lot of people through the comments on posts, but even that's challenging when everyone writes 'good post' and 'follow me'.
I dunno, I only joined Steemit to chat with people, but it's just not really the site for that. Most people just fire and forget their content, just after that quick buck and never read or reply to their followers.
This whole site just seems... cold ? I came here from another alt-social media site, despite it being an extreme right wing shithole, I could talk to people all day long on.
Everyone is just obsessed here about money and becoming rich or famous. I sometimes think I'm the only person on here that has a day job and doesn't have to try making a living from Steemit ? lol :-)
(/rant) lol.
I fully understand your viewpoint. You are into trading and that's fine.
So, there is no need to read about sports or life or so one. Nothing wrong with that. But for most hungry wolves, it should be important to have the biggest friendship circle as possible and spread over different tags. Then is doesn't matter what you write about, cause you always will find somebody in the friendship circle which will find it interesting.
I also do have a real job! And believe it or not, I do see the money as a nice side effect, I would always prefer a genuine comment on my posts above an upvote. (No reason to remove the upvote, because I don't mind upvotes :)).
But yes, when crypto is down, activity on Steemit is down. People only want to share/brag about big winners, and don't want to share their losses. I don't care. I post about my portfolio each week, regardless of red or green figures.
But the post will come back when crypto is booming again! If it won't boom anymore, I doubt that steemit will have a future!
as I said, I only talk about trading on here, I use other sites that specialise in my other interests.
The thing that bugs me the most, if I read someones post and make a comment, ask them a question, maybe only 1 in 10 people bother to reply ? On the site I use for my art, every question gets 10 answers by 10 different people.
I think maybe people should stop calling Steemit a 'social media' platform. Its more like a Hollwood cafe, full of waitresses hoping that one day they'll be 'discovered' and become multi-million dollar actresses, a lot of desperation around.
Sorry, I need to stop ranting now, I'm depressing myself lolol.
I also hate it when people don't reply on questions. It gives the impression that they are only here for an upvote and the money and don't care about the rest. You are completely correct about this. Such authtors will get a second chance from me, but after that they are obsolete :)
Speak out your voice! There's a nothing wrong with doing this, it decreases the stress level just like a good laugh!
Really like the Holl(y)wood café comparision. Maybe I'm going to steal it for a next post, if you don't mind. You will get some credits :)
sure man, use anything I say, no problem lol.
Before I follow people now I read the comments first to see if they answer any questions from their followers. Same with the people I follow, ask them a couple questions in different threads, no reply, they get unfollowed and no more upvotes.
My ideas is that steemit is more fun when you write articles that people take the time to read and comment on.
Wether you call it a circle of friends, or an upvote circle, or a discord channel, you need a community if not it’s a lot like talking to yourself.
You are correct! It is just a naming thing, I just wanted to express that it is not good if everybody stays within their original circle of Friends. Thx for the comment!
actually am offside when it comes to the new tags i also have a tendency of looking at the reputation before i read the post but thanks @fullcoverbetting for this i have learnt something
I can imagine that if the rep score is below 25, you are hesitant to read a post from the other. But there is no use, in the ignore a rep equal or above 25 in my opinion. We all did start there. It could be a great post.
I don't want to offend you, cause it is natural behavior. I just want to understand why rep is so important to you. But I have to admit that I do find the rep score important. But I did change my mind a little bit around it. I though that rep was the only thing that couldn't be bought on Steem, but I was wrong. If you do invest enough money in good upvote bots, your rep will skyrocket!
Oooh yeah i think the more your votes go up the higher your reputation for the reputàtion obviously will look at it more because just imagine if we were ignored in the first place where would be be great thought my dear
Awesome post @fullcoverbetting ! Coming to me, as of now I read and comment on the posts on my feed 30%, going through some new posts and introduce yourself section 30 % and 30% going through my favorite tags..But my ideas about it - delicious ambiguity it is .. :-D
I also did browse through the introduceyourself section, but lately it is scammed by people who already joined and just trying to allure new followers. Also upvoting the introduction posts, could be a poisoned gift. I we do this too much, they will have the idea that it is a quick rich scheme, so I prefer to comment these posts only.
yes sir agreed! But when a genuine member joins and posts an introduction post and people responding and upvoting his post would give him a lot of moral boost I thought. But if thats the case I too will prefer to comment ..nywayz thnx @fullcoverbetting !
Well said! I always seek out new content posted by other steemians. I enjoy seeing a variety of different posts by different users. The only thing that I dislike seeing.. is content taken from the internet and posted on here.. I feel like this site was made so that people could show their creativity in all fields. That's just my humble opinion. Great post though! You've made a lot of valid points. xo
Thx! If we want it to be a social media platform than engagement and inreraction is they key!
Always difficult the find new good content! Takes most of my time on Steemit!
So true!
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Thx guard!
This is very good text, @fullcoverbetting, I'm thinking to draft a similar text in Serbian. And I actually think that Steemit can be considered a tool for creation of a meaningful circles of friends — with a priceless creative outcome :)
Knock yourself out!