Helloooooo Steemians!! How is or how has this Saturday been treating you?? Well I hope. I have been really busy this week working on projects for a couple of group I belong to. @thedarkhorse's Pay It Forward contest and Steemit Greeters Guild @greetersguild. Both of these are something that I have come to realize are a labor of love. The downside, has been because of my limited time I haven't had much time to work on my own posts. Which then makes me guilty of something I come across daily and kind of don't like. I don't want to be the person who resteems 10+ posts and does maybe a post a week. The reality of it is, that is not what is truly going on. I have a few posts each week that are under @greetersguild. On Wednesdays, I contribute to the Daily Curation Spotlight and on Fridays, I contribute to the Daily Newbie Spotlight. Then starting next Saturday I will begin to start helping out with SGG Motivational Saturdays. This along with Pay It Forward (which if you notice a theme) I seek out new lives and .....oops I seek out new and older Steemians that need some encouragement or the 'spotlight' My favorite thing to say lately is to find the people that have fallen into the muck at the bottom of the Steemit ocean and lift them up to see the light of day so others can notice them. All of my work actually goes hand-in-hand. Each part supports another. The trouble usually is the time it takes to find people that 1) want the help, 2) have good content. There is so much garbage it gets to be very timely in searching.
I am so tired of seeing re-hashed Facebook and YouTube videos (especially without crediting the creator), re-hashed memes, pictures take from the internet without giving credit or anything to go with it. Pictures that people take and simply say "My backyard", blatant plagiarism. Let me pose this question. If an article is written in a different language and you translate it to English does that now make it your work and entitle you to post it as such? Sorry, it's still plagiarism. You didn't do the work, you stole someone else's time and effort for your own benefit. Just because you find something on the internet does not give you free reign to take it and use it as your own. That is why you have to cite your sources. I personally think ,you should add a thanks in there too because without their information your post would not exist. The sad part is prior to the crack down on copyrights of pictures, I gather a ton of inspirational and motivational sayings, quote and memes. They're so old I have no clue where they came from. So, now I make sure that the picture itself has all the author's information on it or I get creative and make my own.
Getting back on track? No I never got on track LOL. I started this posts out as I was starting out a review of movie I saw recently 'Loving, Vincent' well, in typical @tryskele fashion, the brain and passion took over and my writing went way off track and a little soap boxey. I wanted to bring these up plus a couple of other posts that do the same thing @newbieresteemday Minnow Mondays with @amariespeaks and ReadMe from @asapers and @insideoutlet. Both do the same thing I do, bring light to those that need it.
Don't follow someone because they followed you that does not help you in anyway. Follow people that are going to entertain you, provide helpful hints in areas you want to learn, people that motivate you. Be selective. You don't have to follow anyone if you don't want. The more people you follow, the more your feed fills up and the more content you miss. Then you have to start to hunt down the people you really want to hear from. As one of the laws of attraction state, 'Surround yourself with people you want to be like, not people that do nothing for you.' As my dad says 'Have people that are part of the solution not part of the problem' this is actually our family motto.
As always...FEEDBACK is greatly appreciated and wanted I am one of those people that LOVE to interact with people (on Steemit anyway) Just remember a ripple can either fade or turn into a wave...it's your choice which way it goes.
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