Happy 2nd year to jnetsworld. In a space of twelve months, reputation score went from 44-55 and I’m still soldiering on with a post or two a week. Is that good? I’m enjoying my time on Steemit. I like writing and I like the community.
I enjoyed a couple more SoCal Steemit Meetups this past year, panning for gold and attending a ballgame. Knowing steemians IRL fortifies my relationship with Steemit and cryptocurrency as I feel connected to a blockchain community. I feel excited and part of a founding group ushering in a new world. Last year, I remember needing to wait several days before I had enough resource credits to make comments or another post. Now I don’t have to wait as long.
I still don’t understand the tribes / community, power up / power down business but I’m having more fun posting in steemit than other sites because I can see my time here translates into steem.
Many thanks to my socalsteemit friends, @derekrichardson, @kunschj, @brian.rrr , @csusbgeochem1, @wfmkay, @mariannewest. Sharing a fun time, meal, or a beer, makes me a lifetime fan of the steemit community. You folks are GOLD.
Another shiny soul in this rushing river of steemians is @practicalthought. I share a virtual beer with you. Your kind comments is like having the North Star wink at you. I never feel lost.
These folks’ hellos sustained a fledgling year. I was happy if I got TEN upvotes. I am still happy if I get ten upvotes but this past year I wrote posts that got more than that. My most popular post earned 536 upvotes! The Partiko app is the best thing I did this year to participate more in Steemit.
Like a two year old, I toddle along, sometimes fascinated by particular blogs like a kid into dinosaurs. And I still impulsively mute blogs that look dead to me having not posted for several months or look like resteeming machines. I’m that kid that sees a loose string and has to pull it (or push the shiny mute button.) Thank you though @futuremind for saying whoa whoa whoa to me and letting me know that a real person can like me, forgive me, and ask me to unmute them. Finding new people I like to follow is like seeing a shooting star. It’s random what words shines to win one over.
I am following 200 people at present, most are quite the mover and shaker type; people with kind energy that give me a new awareness and confidence to meet the changing future. We’re still in frontier land and wow is it interesting. We just had the YouTube Christmas Crypto Purge that quickly got “unpurged.” Boy, was that slide scary.
Some general stats: I don’t resteem often but average a resteem after every dozen posts. I averaged 5 votes a post for my first 100 posts and I averaged 18 upvotes per post on my second year. I didn’t gain over 100 upvotes on a post until I’ve done well over 100 posts.
My Sixth Divorce gained 158 votes. I would write another dozen posts before I again found an audience with My Introvert Anthem with 212 upvotes. Soon after, I would earn 225 upvotes with A Lil Bit of Rain and then 303 upvotes with The Mistakes that Make Me Smile.
Almost half a year would pass writing to a tiny audience and then The Struggle of the Good Enough Voice earned 155 upvotes and soon after my most popular post to date,
He Called Me Ted earned 535 upvotes. It is only recently that my posts earn more than half a dozen upvotes. I owe enjoying the journey to my socalsteemit group. These past couple of years would’ve been a quiet hike where hard forks may have knocked me off the trail.
I’m TWO! And it means a lot to me when the bigger kids in this playground check on me and want to play. Always have fun. Play-post and enjoy writing whether you get 5 upvotes or 500. Be you and you will find that is exactly why people show up. Thanks for coming to my party!
JNET