Follow for follow hurts steemit!

I can't be the only one who thinks that follow for follow is irritating. Steemit is a platform that allows us to follow people who write content that we enjoy, and be followed by people who enjoy our content. The whole idea of follow for follow goes against this idea, if you follow people for the express purpose of gaining a follower back it doesn't help either party. You only get upvotes from people who enjoy your content, people who have followed you just because you followed them are probably not going to even click on your content when it comes up in their feed.

I have a small following of about 330, but they were organically grown. Presumably they followed me because they enjoyed at least one thing I wrote and that is how it should be. I realise me posting this might lose me a few followers, and that's okay, because I'm here for the long run. I believe in Steemit!

Steemit doesn't need follow for follow and I think it actually harms it as a whole. All that time and energy going into asking for followers could have been used to contribute a great post that will attract followers anyway and possibly attract people from google.

Every time a great post is written on steemit, it adds to the wealth of knowledge on the platform and increases the chance of somebody wanting to join.

So please guys and girls, save up the time and energy you are wasting on begging for follows and write your best post so far, I guarantee it will bring you more upvotes in the long run.

Happy Mining

Viking