Hello everyone! Today marks the 7th day of my stay here in Steemit and I would like to look back and review what I've been doing here this week and reflect through it as I further discuss what was my expectations as well as its consecutive reality from my point of view and most of all what I learned here in Steemit. I do hope also this will help other new steemians, giving them insights about steemit.
I believe our very own goal here is to earn. Yes, I got attracted to what the people on the internet telling everyone that this platform will really give you money in return for contents worth reading. That sounded pretty interesting right. I was convinced and actually signed up 2 weeks ago and started my first article (it's all about a weed, WEEEEEEDS, you can check that out in my blog and it's not what you think it is Haha) and I got disappointed for I got zerooo views. Well, that sucks. Prior to that I stopped and criticized the platform as a scam and a failure.
Few days have passed, I met a friend (
So I made my very first post (not considering the weed thing, haha) and it was my introductory post. That post slapped me in the face, getting rid of my old and crooked conviction about steemit. With that, I got interested more and rigorously studied steemit. I posted more articles with much effort but unfortunately, back to what I believed in, I received very low results and feedbacks but this time it didn't disappoint me. Unknowingly, I fell in love with the platform not to which it gives money but to the fact it became my dumping place for ideas hiding in the midst of my old-fashioned brain. I believe some people do not believe steemit works that way for them instead ... yeah, for the money. But anyway who cares we are all going to die anyway. Haha
So, summarized below are the things I learned and presented as pieces of advice:
- Don't expect too much rewards instead focus on writing high-quality articles. This will help you to not to be discouraged.
- Quality over quantity. Like come on, who likes to follow someone with annoying poor contents.
- Don't beg for upvotes. You'll just sound desperate and pitiful. Instead, share them in a professional way. Sharing and begging are two different things. In fact, I highly encourage sharing.
- Engage to the community. Yes, and I would just like to point out this matter. I didn't expect to find this one on this platform. In fact, it's what I like the most. I never felt welcome in my life as that moment when I made my introductory post (that tells how boring my life is HAHA), especially from my fellow Filipino steemians (
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and many more). You might say that it's just an insignificant thing here but to me, it meant a lot. From the place where I came from, (Iligan City, Philippines) I found a new family. I would highly encourage new steemians (Filipino or not) to follow
(kudos to the founder sir
along with other leaders) and its local aspects
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and
which are being managed by local pioneering leaders. Through their initiative, the community is getting stronger and that's so well-pleasing. They share quality blogs made by other steemians promoting quality Filipino content including also
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,
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, and
. Much more, they had projects and more to come for the betterment of the Filipino society. I can't specifically say here all their achievements which are all too many to mention. You can check their pages but yeah trust me, they all did well. I know there are still many Filipino steemians out there who helped in cultivating this community and a great salute for you guys. So yeah, I believe that engaging to the whole community wouldn't be that challenging anymore after establishing a stable bond between steemians locally.
I guess that would be all for now. I still consider myself a newbie to this platform and still studying its entirety. I do hope this platform will not be abused and continue to develop further. Thanks for stopping by! Steem on!
