Happy Caturday, everyone!
Yes, it's that day of the week again, so roll out all your cat pictures and cat stories for the world to see! Because — after all — we all know that the true purpose of the Internet is to look at cat and kitten videos and photos!
Above all, let's not take it all so seriously... life is too short to not have fun! Or take naps!
I love the backs of chairs! Yes, I know it doesn't look comfortable... but it IS!
A Couple of Thoughts on Building Community
In my few months here, I have been pretty "active," as Steemians go. According to my latest stats from Steemworld.org, I have posted a little over 100 top level posts and commented somewhat more than 2000 times. That's in the course of about five months...
No, I am not cleaning my privates! This is a SERIOUS Yoga pose called "playing the fiddle!"
People talk a lot about Steemit's problems with "member retention" (let's be honest: it sucks!), and how they don't seem to be "getting anywhere" when they join here.
We seem to forget that communities are not built overnight.
We also seem to forget that building communities takes work!
People get on places like twitter, or Facebook or Instagram, and they often spend months and years posting and interacting with "interesting" content before they establish a following. One of my Humans has a small charity organization. Sure, it has 6000+ followers on Facebook and twitter... but it took eight years to do that!
Why would Steemit be ANY different?
Obligatory Curator Cat (sleepy) selfie!
No matter where you are — Steemit, Facebook or even moving into a new physical neighborhood — it takes time and effort to become part of a community, and to help build it. And it isn't just going to drop out of empty space, simply because you "showed up!"
"But the rewards!" you say...
Why would that make any difference? You joined a social content site. You didn't apply for a job, with an expected and reliable paycheck. Just think about that, for a moment... because if you thought this was going to be "like a job," that's all in YOUR head, not in reality!
Anyway, just needed to get that off my chest!
Now go out there and have a marvelous day! I'm off to do the Caturday "rounds!"