I have spent 1+ Month in steemit. And there are some disturbing facts in steemit that is similar to other social medias.
Steemit is the most beautiful platform i have seen soo far in my life. It is a platform where you can grow yourself, make your self a living. But sometimes we forget, is it really necessary to make this like the other Social medias?
(Things iv'e noticed that are disturbing in steemit.)
When i first joined steemit, there were people who came up to comment on my blog saying "Follow for Follow", this made me think if i was on Twitter or Instagram.
Its very common to see people go follow for follow in those websites. Because they think having a lot of followers is a sense of pride. I also commonly noticed this in Steemit. Where people first say "Follow me and I'll follow you back".
I'd rather stay away from them.
The reason being, they will first follow you because they want to randomly increase their followers. And they have no interest in your Content. You may have 1000 followers, but if no one is interested in what you make, Is there a point?
You'd rather have 50 loyal followers who follow you because they admire your work, and with those 50 you will someday make more than $300 easily.
Also, the ones who go follow for follow will initially Unfollow you at some point. Why? Because they think after reaching certain number of followers, unfollowing them and showing that you follow only 10-15 and your have a followers base of 1000+ is a big pride to them. Some follow 10k users and jump with joy when they hit 1k followers. Crappy. (Remember buddy! they will unfollow you too and you'll lick dust)
All this happens in other social medias. And now it's happening to steemit as well. Unless you're a girl, and some horny men's start following you. (Story of Instagram)
Instead of all this, make this palace a better place. Remember, you can earn here with just sharing our thoughts and you don't need to sell yourself to make money here. It happens in Instagram and Twitch.
Admire the authors hard work. Follow because you find him/her helpful and interesting or you love their posts. Don't go with an expectations.
I have about 263 followers, but most of them ii feel are following with an expectation for follow for follow. I won't do that unless i find your posts helpful or are really good. If you are following me for Follow for follow then remember to unfollow me straight away.
But remember the one's i follow will always be in my followed list. because i like what they do.
Why self promoting is not bad
As a new member into the community it gets harder to grow then the ones already up. To get noticed you may need a lot of help. Of course there are lot's of help available, for e.g.
of the whaleshare community. To self promote you may also decide to send some SBD to 
, 
,
. etc. But if your post is crap and you decide to use them to promote the post, it's no use. People may not like it.The only way to get noticed in the community when you are new is either join
or Whaleshare community in the Discord channel.
There is no harm in using self promoting techniques, as you want to get noticed, don't you?
You could join the Minnowsupport channel here, Or the whaleshares Community this is the part of discord servers. They are there to help new users. You can find me too in there.
Feel free to Follow or Unfollow.
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