How long does it take to get approved to Steemit?

27/05/2017
How long does it take to get approved to Steemit?

This is the question I typed into google a few hours after registering. I had received the email thanking me for confirming my email, everything had moved quite smoothly up to then. Choose my user name, entered my phone number. Then everything grind to a halt and I begin the waiting game, that so many before me have had to suffer.

I confirmed my email Friday 26th May 13:21. 24 hours on still waiting and now writing my post ready to share once I get in.
The sad thing is I am reading loads of other people's post on this subject, but without an account I am unable to 'upvote' them. Once I am in the people who will probably read this post will also be people with no account yet, sat searching for reassurance that it is just a waiting game and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So won't be able to 'upvote' me, and help my $ rise, or whatever the system is to show that my post are read and liked.
Suppose I will read some more posts on the subject, that I won't be able 'upvote' on, some on the subject of getting in, others on how I will rise up this pyramid and get a following.

28/05/2017

Update 48 hours and still not in, but still keeping my diary so I can post when I finally get in.
Been using my time wisely. Bit of home improvement (see introduction post) and researching this new world called 'Steemit'. Been reading lot of post trying to get my head round how it works and how money is magically created from thin air.
Becoming a bit annoying now, every ping of phone sparks my hopes that Steemit has finally gotten to my request; only to find it's just my sister posting another picture of her kids to Facebook.
Decided best to just keep writing post while I am still enthusiastic about this new idea. So when I am finally in I have something to post.

29/05/2017

Update 72 hours and still not in. This could be due to the fact I applied on a Friday and the weekend has slowed everything down.
Found a very interested YouTube video this morning during my research https://steemit.com/@pressfortruth. Watching this along with the reading I have done is making me get more eager to get in. Seems this is the social media platform I have been looking for to share my creative writing. Let me in!!!

30/05/2017

Update 96 hours.
Tuesday lunchtime and still not in. Getting to the point where I am worried I have been declined for some reason and I can feel my enthusiasm dwindling. Think I stop writing this diary and go back to writing my book.

01/06/2017

Update 144 hours

Thursday nearly a week since I asked to join and still not in. Found this link this morning.
https://www.steemithelp.net/#/logging-in/
Seems my wait is not unusual, as it says some people might be wait over a week to get accepted.

02/06/2017

174 hours (1 week, 6 hours)
Finally got the email (18:58) to say I have been accepted. I am in and have made my first post https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@kathieletalis/just-wanted-to-say-hello

Think Steemit really needs to sort their system of approving people to their site. 7 days I think it's fair to say is rather slow. Although I did read the other day that if I had used the AnonSteem service then I could have got in instantly and it would have only cost me a bit of money.

Anyway I am in and I hope this post gives people out there, who are still waiting for the confirmation email, hope that if they just sit tight approval is only a week away. ;)

xxx Kathie

PS
Please comment below to say how long it took you to get approved. Give the awaiting members who might find this post a bit of hope that if they sit tight it is worth playing the Steemit waiting game.