So when I first started Steemit back on May 8th, 2017, one of my goals was to follow as many people as I could right away, in the hope that people would start following me back. To my delight, this has for the most part worked out to benefit me greatly. I have had this sort of sweet spot wherein I get about half the amount of followers that I follow.
Now, some people really do not like having their feed bombarded with things they don't want to see. I figured the benefits of having more followers might outweigh this small disadvantage. What I've done to combat this is started a MS Word document with the names of about 20 Steemians of whom I really enjoy their content. If I didn't do this, I would probably forget to check out these people's pages for new posts, and it might cause them not to upvote my content.
So, in my experience, if you don't care about your feed page having all sorts of posts that you might not care about, and you'd rather have more followers, then go nuts.
I also know people who have like 10 people that they follow and those are the 10 people they only ever want to see posts from. I sort of get this, but I think those people are hindering themselves from gaining new followers (and upvotes). (New) Steemians more often than not just want to be noticed, and if you only follow 10 people, they might feel like there's no chance of you noticing them or their content.
What do you guys think? Do you have a good balance between people you follow and followers? Do you go nuts and just follow anyone? Is your feed sacred to you? Let me know, I'm interested to hear different peoples' takes on this.
Thanks!
