The Importance of the Comment Section

I'm gonna go out and say that the comment section is THE MOST IMPORTANT part of Steemit. It doesn't matter what you post, how good your pictures are, or how great of a writer you are if you don't engage with others. This is a social media and if you want to harness all it's potential, you have to be active in the comment sections, both your own and others.

I already knew that but last two weeks proved it even further. I was in Thailand on a holiday and even though I posted every day, I wasn't very active otherwise, and it shows. The amount of upvotes was somewhat the same as always, but my comment section has pretty much died over the last two weeks, and it sucks! I can only blame myself for that.

I actually got a comment from Hive account@futuremind, giving me a little feedback on the subject. My first response was to get mad and ignore him, but of course he was right and I knew it.

Of course I couldn't be as active as I would be back at home (where I have no life) because then I would have missed a lot of real life experiences and that is not good either. I'm still new at this as a full time Steemian, and working hard on trying to find a good balance between work and play. I need to live enough on the real life to have things to photograph and talk about, and on the other hand I need to spend time socialising in here.

It is my job to make sure you feel included on my blog and in my travels. It is my job to engage with my audience, not just post a pretty picture, take rewards and disappear. For some people, it might work for a while, but it's not sustainable in the long run. And I intend to be in this for a long long time.

I'm going to spend the better part of the coming week being really active on Steemit, trying to make up for the time I was away. I've missed so much and I want to get back on my routine of posting and commenting.

Along with the comments, I think Steem.chat is the second most important part of Steemit, when wanting to connect with new people and to stay in touch with older friends. It is a great place to hang out when you find a group of likeminded people and you can basically find internet friends from all over the world at any time of the day or night. I do warn you, it is highly addictive! Shout out to my friends at Dzone<3

I'm tempted to out a few, more or less successful users who interact with their audience very rarely or not at all, but I think that would be rude because in a way, they are doing nothing wrong. What do you think about that?