Happy 1st Monthsary, Steemit! 💘 : Recounting My 1st Month's Lessons and Experiences in Steemit Through a ❤️ LOVE LETTER ✉

⛔️ WARNING: CHEESY LETTER AHEAD

16 January 2018

Dear Steemit,

Happy 1st Monthsary!

We have just known each other for a short time but I think I have spent more time with you than anything in my online life. Maybe it’s our honeymoon stage that makes me excited to be with you all the time. And there are still a lot of things I need to know about you. You are so easy to be with yet so complex and that makes me want you more. I hope you don’t find me too clingy though.

❤ Building Relationships

To be honest, I thought you weren’t the right guy for me. I re-worked and improved my introduction to you but you didn’t notice me while those who posted at the same time as me were doing so great. I was weak and I easily got discouraged. And so I was so happy I met @sykochica , @geekpowered and @kassixo that night and they encouraged me to continue which is why I am still here!

And then I met more people who formed as my informal support group like @davemccoy who gives lessons to his fellow newbies, and through him I met amazing people like the @keeperofthewoods and @lynncoyle1 . I also found a Filipino community inspired by @surpassinggoogle although I have only connected with a few Filipinos so far. I find it difficult to get in their closely knit communities. I wish to get to know them too and that's something I have to work on. But I also found new friends from all over the world like @derletwins from Ghana, @ami92 from Indonesia and @matytan from Cambodia. And so much more!

😩 Newbie Mistakes

I also want to say sorry if my some of my first posts weren’t quality posts and I just posted photos thinking those were enough. I learned now that you value good content and so I am working hard on them now. I thought I should just wait until I get a following before I work hard. But I got reminded again by @sykochica and @geekpowered (I consider them my mentors without their permission! 😉 ) to just keep posting daily or every other day and that’s when I will get real followers. That led me to work on my first travel blog which was inspired by @koskl ‘s Indonesia blogs.

🌠 First Achievements

And then an amazing thing happened just before 2017 ended, my first travel blog about the Komodo Dragons got curied! Well, I actually didn’t know what getting “curied” meant when that happened. When @choogirl told me I got curied, I thought I was just upvoted or got curated by many people. I didn’t know it was such an honor to be seen by the @curie team! At the same time, the same blog got featured in @steemitworldmap ’s Travel Digest. It’s such a wonderful feeling to see a post you’ve worked hard on 2nd on the list. I have never achieved a recognition for my writing like this before. My last stint in writing was in high school and all my classmates were just so good and so smart, my writing can never compare. These initiatives are bringing back my self-confidence.

⬇️ Downtime

But after the highs, we had lows which I think is but natural. I was talking to @unspeakableme one time on how it can be discouraging to keep writing quality posts that nobody reads (she writes really awesome poems, you should check it out). But we should really fight these negative emotions and keep on working hard to achieve organic growth here.

I also must confess that I experimented on bidding bots in a few posts. I don’t know what you think about bidding bots. It felt good to be rewarded for hours of work but then it didn’t feel good for me. I would prefer a real human whale vote even if it will take some time for them to notice me, at least I know a human read my post. But this just me, I respect people who have a different opinion on bidding bots, for now that is how I feel about it. So please please don’t flag me for saying this – I don’t mean anything bad – it is my feeling and not a matter of right or wrong. And I still use the smaller bots like @originalworks and those that support minnows like @banjo and @upvoteph ! Hope that’s fine, it’s just a tiny vote to feel good.

💕 Commitment

I think I have already talked a lot but thank you for accepting the talkative and the real me. A lot of things have happened and I have been so sleepless because of you. For now, I would have to spend lesser time with you because of my full time and part time jobs, but I promise not to stop and to give you time every single day. I think this is a long term commitment I have with you now and I hope you feel the same way for me. ‘Til my next love letter.

I Steem You!

Xoxo,
@wanderlass

PS. Have I told you that you are my first online relationship? Mr. Zuckerberg tried but he just broke my heart. 💔

I can finally eat my Ube (Purple Yam) Milk cake after the Photo Op!

Oh the things I do for you, Steemit! 😄