Lost in the digital world

At times, I don’t even know who I am anymore. I used to be a very private person, living quietly in my little bubble, until I discovered Steemit. Blogging was something I never thought I’d do, as I am not the most social person. Yet, after two years I sort of lost track of all the different sites and apps I’m on.

Some people don’t like to admit they’re active on other sites, as it seems like a betrayal of Steemit, others have no problem advertising their presence on other platforms. I don’t have a problem saying I have other accounts, since it’s not like really cheating on Steemit. Whatever I write it is always posted here first and when I can be bothered I copy/paste to other platforms. And no, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, because when I signed up to Steemit I realized I could have done it one year earlier. Everybody was talking about the crazy times of the early days and the huge payouts. Too late to do anything about that. But I got a severe case of FOMO and every time I hear of something new I just have to check it out. Because it just might turn out to be very good and you want to be an early adopter…
For the time being I have not found any platform that I like better than Steemit and I’ve abandoned some of the other accounts. Yet, yesterday Narrative launched it’s beta version and that is a project I’ve been following for quite some time. Obviously, I had to do a quick introduction, not much, as I’m really tired of these introductions. I have no idea if I got any response to that post as I haven’t checked. Instead, going over my feed here I discovered there’s yet another platform, Pocketnet. Yes, I signed up (it’s very easy) and now I have a new wallet with 5Poc in it. (That’s another problem, having all sort of wallets holding various alts, which all amount to nothing at the moment, but who knows, right?)
The fun part of signing up to something new is looking for people you already know, because wherever you go you’re bound to run into many Steemians. This also makes me wonder if all these new crypto platforms are really becoming popular or is it just us being a very determined, possibly mental, bunch of people running around creating accounts all over the place? On the one hand, yeah, there’s a lot of new platforms vying to become number one, but on the other hand it’s mostly just us.
What’s very nice, though, is the comforting feeling in meeting familiar names. Here I am in this new strange environment, but then I see a familiar name and I know it’s OK, I’m still among my own people. Even users I don’t usually interact with here, like a third cousin you’ve never met, but still, it’s family. Because we are a family after all the time we’ve known each other. And if there’s ever going to be another more successful platform I do think we, Steemians, have a right and a duty to rule it!

Thanks for reading