Who's with me on this?
I find myself getting lost in all the really amazing high-quality content and I just want to upvote it! All day!
Then I end up in the comment section and I want to upvote y'all there too! I basically love curating. I'm also a stickler for rules, so I be Googling sentences from your posts. Don't plagiarize. I'll catch ya. 😎
Currently, my upvote is worth a mere $0.06 at about 71%. SteemFTW tells me I have to wait 2 full days without voting to be up to 100% again.
I think my problem stems from Facebook. I used to LOVE Facebook. Like ... LOVE. I thought it could really help us connect with each other and eventually be a place where people could make a living (by utilizing Facebook's advertising/reach and connecting with a much larger audience than ever before). And it was working. For tons of people... and to be fair, still is. 😏
During the time Facebook was growing I came to the conclusion that if you are well-liked and participate, then social media can reward you (in one way or another).
So I started participating like a boss. 😎 I began liking EVERYTHING. I mean, things I liked. I didn't just throw around my vote like an autobot...😏 And I would comment. Really engaging comments. I started searching for others that did/enjoyed the same thing. I even made an advertisement for myself. Here it is. Proof. 😎 It was awesome.
Then... the politics came. (As you may note: I already knew the appropriate 'no politics' rule that was to come.) Social media, as we only first began to understand it, was changing. And not for the better.
Before our very eyes, we watched, completely helpless and without a voice, as our free speech and access to all of our followers dwindled to practically nothing. Now, we can PAY to reach an audience that already requests to see our content, providing that content doesn't somehow fall into the myriad of the new NOs of social media.
At first, those being told no, being censored, and being demonetized were a small targeted group. Yet, even as the first voice was silenced, no matter what was said, we entered into a new realm. One of whispers from the past and stories of science fiction novels. Now, no one is safe. 😔
While all of this has been happening we've all been fighting with each other, seemingly not even noticing the vast changes to our freedoms happening every day. It's downright terrifying.😲
I digress. It seems I've gone off on a tiny tangent on Facebook and the general injustices forming in our world.
Back to it.😏
I DID learn many great (and not so great) things navigating and growing with Facebook. One of which was liking (or upvoting) and engaging. I am so freaking excited that Steemit is now offering the exact type of rewarding, high-quality community I was hoping Facebook would become.
Yes, there are lots of problems. But I really think, with all the exceptionally intelligent folks working towards its success, Steemit could not possibly go the route of Facebook (the highly censored way). We do have to self-govern, but I think we CAN do that. I think we CAN be fair to one another. I don't think Steemit will ever be what Facebook has become. I feel Steemit has an overlying intelligence (or that's the goal 😃) where other social media simply doesn't.
What do YOU think? I mean, you're here, reading this, so you've got to at least believe in it a little, right?
My little rant was in lieu of me scrolling through my feed and tags and reading YOUR amazing content. I have to hold off. Create a little more. Find that balance. Thank you for being here... all of you. 😍
Oh! Because it never hurts to ask...
(except all those newbies commenting, "Please, Upvote me". Not that you're even reading this, but don't do that, y'all. #notcool)...
All images were of my Bitmoji and the Danger sign can be found for free HERE.
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Hugs & 💋 
