Hey guys! Recently I've been running a contest where my followers can earn free Steem each week by simply following me and being active. More information at the bottom of the post!
What I realised from this is that many people follow a LOT of people, so what's the point? If your feed is just spammed full of random content from everyone that you don't care about, then what's the point of following them?
My Opinion
I feel like that most people follow too many people, I follow around 60 people, of which a lot are inactive and some post once a week or so, so I get a new post every couple hours on average. I'm happy with this, maybe a new post every hour would be ideal so I can scroll a few every few hours I'm on a break. If I wanted more, I'd just look at the trending or hot pages, which is usually spammed with garbage anyway. My newsfeed is the ONLY bit of Steem that isn't full of garbage.
Honestly, I recommend that if you're serious about Steemit, you should clean out your followings list. Or perhaps just check out your feed and unfollow anyone who posts stuff you don't enjoy, or think is useless! This way you will only be looking at the stuff you care about, unless you're following someone for a financial reward (e.g me for a chance to win free Steem).
Impact
I have more than 1,000 followers, of which I understand a lot are bots but if even 10% of them were real people, I should be seeing more than like 5 comments on each of my posts that I don't promote. The fact that I only get comments and upvotes when I promote my post suggests no one really looks at their newsfeeds, most people just go to the Hot or Trending tabs. I feel like this is a real shame and more people should care about the people they follow! So, if you don't like my content unfollow me now, you're doing both of us a big favor in terms of the long term viability of Steemit.
Discussion
What do you think? How many followings is too many? How many do you have and what is your experience? Any feedback is welcome!
