Today I'm going to write about something very serious. I've been a steemian for a week and in that time I've been adapting to this fascinating world. I did several posts testing what I could write to be "accepted" by this community. The curious thing about this test is that of all my posts, the one that returned more money to me was the one that I supposedly added less value to community.
What does that mean exactly? I simply have no idea, but I was able to ask myself several things about it and draw some conclusions.
Well, to better understand this post I divided it into two parts: Questions and Conclusions.
Questions:
Didn' t I express myself correctly?
Don't I have enough visibility?
Isn't my content good enough?
Do people want to read about what I write?
Do people really read what I write?
Is it better to add value or make money? Can I do both?
Conclusions:
In today's world people are more superficial and selfish.
People are not prepared for the excess of information that the virtual world offers.
The world is increasingly capitalist.
Creating good content is extremely difficult.
People want to be millionaires before they get rich.
Overall Conclusion:
In my opinion, the crux of the conclusions is: ** the human being is not prepared for the excess of information **, it may seem exaggerated on my part, but stop to think what the "HAILSTORM" of information can cause:
-Excess of comparisons: people in your social networks only put their good moments, travels, achievements, loves ideas, parties ... This often causes an unfair comparison with who is seeing. Why? When you see only the "good" part of someone's life you forget that behind all this there are millions of problems and battles that this person faced to reach these achievements. Once I heard a very interesting sentence that I will share with you:
"Never compare your rack to someone else's stage"
Many and many times we are envious and we find that people have come to their success easily and forget that we do not know what battles and obstacles this person has gone through to be there.
-Lack of focus: currently people believe that they can be multitasking, this is impossible. If you think you are doing so many things at once in a great way, YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELF. Even computers don't things at the same time despite the multitasking concept making us believe in that. On computers, tasks are staggered in different ways which makes them seem like they are done at the same time, but what happens is that the higher priority tasks are done while others wait, but this is done so fast that we do not even notice it. So doing things "at the same time" does not exist. Take the test of focusing on just one thing at a time to see how your work will be more productive and faster.
-Assessment: Nowadays with communication being so instantaneous people are getting more and more anxious. This is funny because in the old days for two people, from different countries, communication was with letters and that took months. People today send a message to whatsapp and if you do not respond within minutes they get crazy.
-Difficulty of relationships: currently relating is increasingly difficult, not just lovingly, but even friendship relationships are complicated. A good example for this is the family lunch, this moment simply DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE!! Today each family member is on their cell phone talking to other people or simply seeing news, social networks, etc. The moment everyone gathered, they asked about their day, they told stories, they laughed, it DISAPPEARED!
Well if i'd write about everything that I believe is happening today would be very extensive the post. I'm sorry if the post was too aggressive, but I hope it touched you somehow.
Thanks for reading and the comments will be very welcome.
Ricardo Farah
Lots of good points that I don't have answers to. In regards to content posted to Steemit (or anywhere for that matter) I'm a firm believer in doing what you want to do as opposed to trying to "read the market" so to speak.
True value and economics simply don't correlate. C-List reality stars earn more for tweeting a picture of their ass than a cancer researcher might earn for a decade of work & 3 published papers.
I think being genuine and making the content you would want to see is the only path to adding value and making money simultaneously, but it takes a long time & persistent effort. It's so rare in any endeavor because most of us quit before we realize success.
Look at Steemit in poker terms too! There is inherent randomness in the system. The same post could perform drastically different at different times just depending on who sees it, how much voting power they have left, what else is going on that day. Looking at things in isolation can quickly give wrong impressions because the feedback does not correlate directly. If your pocket aces get cracked twice in a row, I know you're not going to fold them preflop the third time because you believe pocket aces always lose. Just make the +EV moves on Steemit and watch your long term trend.
+EV is as simple as no spam, being polite, being genuine, being consistent, and putting in effort. After that it's out of your control!
I totally agree with what you put in. Your metaphor for poker is brilliant. In those first weeks I did several tests of content and now I'll start writing about what I really like. Try to add as much value as possible. Thank you very much for your detailed analysis of my post. I hope to exchange several experiences with you yet.
good points.. and it is great you took time to write them.. :)
Good post and thoughts ...
I once heard a writer being interviewed she said we need more reader we have enough writers lol And here on steemit doubly so I think we have 200000 or so writing and few reading ... I see lots of silly blogs telling everyone how to behave act get follower, these posts get huge votes. Yet other subjects with much more social and news value go unread.
So until there is an increase in readers the bots and groups will be your best friends... As they are to a great number of the successful miners. oh I mean writers lol
again I am reading a comment that makes sense .. it depends on your time too and how involved you want to get
Thanks for your comment ... I agree in several aspects .. But can you believe that in several of my posts, people commented things that had nothing to do with the context of what I wrote? This is often very frustrating.
Oh I so agree.... flwd
So complicate heehe
some of us read... some of the points you made I could have made we have many of the same thoughts... I did a post today.. a type of commentary about what is going on in the world...whether anyone sees it or not I am better for it.. I feel like a weight is lifted off of me... I needed to get it out somewhere. Really it surprised me how I felt..I did it for me..not what I thought others would want. :)
Thanks for your comment, I believe that the points you put are very interesting.
I made a similar conclusion regarding the content: In the beginning your omplex articles don't get recognized but if you pst a flower you get $$$. But that is misleading because you have to small of a peer to get the recognition you seek. In my opinion try to focus on high quality content all the time, maybe with shorter articles if it is not worth your time. But this is the way to get a good fellowship over time. I don't think it takes long to succeed, probably 3 months I guess. If you were very active in that time you will see a huge difference. And from then it goes up, up, up.
Thank you very much my friend ... I agree with you and from now on I will only make contents posts that I consider very useful and that can help the maximum of people.
Well, you don't have to create only that. You can also just have fun, like me in this post:
https://steemit.com/funny/@flauwy/why-follower-celebration-posts-stink-by-the-way-i-got-275-followers-and-50-reputation-that-s-good-isn-t-it