Recently I’ve been reading quite a few posts with regards to people leaving the dreaded message of...

...'follow and I’ll follow back’.

Now, firstly I’m fairly new to Steemit, over a month or so, and I’ll openly admit that when someone said ‘follow me and I’ll follow back’ to me, then I would follow them back too, and I might have even said the same thing to others before, but I quickly stopped doing this, after only a few days or so because I saw how annoying this can be and how unbeneficial it also is.

A Good Following

Now if you have something in common with each other or like each other’s posts then that’s understandable, but I assume that you would be following each other in that case if you happen to enjoy each other’s posts, or at least get on well with your fellow Steemian.
So, begging doesn’t give yourself credit at all and I want to outline why this makes absolutely no sense at all.
Everyone wants to make money by using the Steemit platform, but to make money consistently, you need a good following.
I said GOOD following, not a following of people who are not interested in what you have on your mind, or people who have nothing in common with you.
You want the type of following where you get on well with each other, and appreciate each other’s blogs, stories, images or whatever it may be, because there is a much higher chance of having people upvote and comment on your posts if they like what you post about and there is a relationship between you both.
There is virtually no chance of an upvote if they don’t like what you post about, especially now with the HF19 upon us, leaving us with a lot less votes than before, but votes which are also worth a lot more too.

Example

Now take me for example, I don’t like certain things, like poetry does nothing for me, but for someone else it might be their favourite topic posts to read about on Steemit.
So, if someone that writes poetry also likes some of the things that I post then that’s great of course, and they might even follow me, but I’m not going to follow them back if I have a look at their previous posts on their account and all I see is poetry posts, it’s just not something that I appreciate personally. Unless of course, you are my friend.
There is nothing wrong with that at all, it’s just I don’t want my feed clogged up with posts that I have no interest about.
If someone commented on my posts and a friendly relationship was built then I consider that a different matter because we would enjoy each other’s chat, so of course I would give them a follow and support them as much as I could, but if all they ever said was ‘follow and I’ll follow back’ then it’s not really building a good relationship up.

Importanace of Commenting

Which leads me onto the subject of leaving comments on other people’s posts if you enjoy it, because that’s a great way of building a relationship with your fellow Steemians and to create a larger, more appreciated follower base.
Just as I said earlier, if you happen to enjoy each other’s chat, then that’s excellent and other people might join in with the chat too, which would more likely lead to a decent following for all involved in the chat, and in turn that could get you some support for your future posts.

Correct me if I’m wrong but there is no point in having 1000 followers if each of your posts only get a few cents?

Appreciation

One thing I would like to say though, before anyone thinks that I’m just being an angry Scotsman, I appreciate immensely the people who enjoy my posts, upvote them, comment on them, and the fact that they follow me is great, but I’m not going to follow them if they post things that I am not interested in or only comment with those annoying words.
Build a relationship up and I might give you a follow back, even if some of the posts aren’t to my tasting, I can at least appreciate you and try my best to give you support.
It gives a false sense of a following for them if I did follow them back and never upvote or comment on any of their posts.
So, the point I’m trying to make is this, I appreciate all my followers and thank them from the bottom of my heart for the continuous support with their upvotes, comments and resteems, but I’m not into this ‘follow and I’ll follow back’ nonsense. I say nonsense because it makes no sense at all.

It’s all a learning curve though and we will all grow this Steemit community together, and hopefully in time we will see this type of comment less and less on people’s posts. So maybe not get on at the newbies too harshly but educate them for the future.

If you enjoyed this post, then you know what to do....Upvote, comment, resteem and follow (only if you appreciate it!) @SHEESHKABABAGE

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