I joined Steemit in mid January. I have to admit that I was kinda late in the crypto game. Or maybe not? You see I blame myself for not being informed. That way I could be one of the early adopters. Prices were literally so low that you could buy large amounts with a small investment. There is no big difference whether we talk about Steem, BTC or any other Alt.

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So at the time I joined everything seemed ideal. And like every other newcomer, I though that Hey that's it. In no time I am gonna be rich!
You see, steem at that time was sitting at 4.6$ and SBD more or less the same. And since I was a complete noob and i had no guidance, I started following large stake holders, dolphins etc, hoping that with the right comments and consistent presence at their posts, eventually I would get noticed at some point.

Their payouts were dazzling for a newcomer, so was their vote. So I said to myself that since I cannot invest at these prices, I should get all the help needed to grow my account. I was always voting (you know...my 0.001$) leaving interesting comments, resteemed dozens of their posts. But I never ever got noticed. You see most of the large stakeholders care only for a specific group of people and I was definitely not one of them.

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I used to follow 500 - 600 people. Not quite sure but they were a lot. And it was obviously a wrong approach. You see in order to grow in this platform you have to find people with common interests, same ideas and in most cases with the same wallet you have, and grow together by supporting each other! Now if a random big upvote comes towards you, you should be thankful and of course don't even think for a moment that this is going to be something permanent!

Of course I figured that out a couple of months later...

Now I knew what I had to do! And so I did it. I started visiting other blogs and reading dozens of posts and commenting almost in every single post i read, from people who were unnoticed, just like me. And it actually worked! Now I don't want to mention any names but they know who are the ones I am talking about.

Next step was to unfollow all those that didn't interact with me.

There is no point in following so many accounts. Actually it is a lot better to follow 100 accounts and interact with them rather than having 2000. Also it is a really nice feeling knowing that you actually contributed and helped a few people to grow.And if this is mutual...even better. If not that's also ok. Of course that's just me....
Which brings us to the point that even though I follow only few people my feed was crowded with their posts, until a few weeks ago.

But not any more...

As I have repeatedly stated, I am a big fan / believer of Steem / Steemit and I'd like to believe that there are also people like me out there. I don't really know if steem's price is what discourages people from posting, or if they just need a break or maybe both. Some of them should definitely be on vacations also, but what I know for sure is that in a five minute scroll down a have seen and read every new post that was created from those I follow in the last 24 hours.

Sad I know

But I try to look at the bright side. I am doing my own research, since my feed is dead and read random articles lately, which will have as a result to meet new people and of course add them to my following list.

So what about you guys?

Feel free to leave your comments and thoughts about the current situation.

Until next time...
Stay awesome!
Cheers @mindtrap