How to Make Friends on Steemit

My first few weeks in Steemit were filled with desperation. I followed everyone I could. You can see the proof in the number of people I am following.
I wanted to make the money as fast as possible because I knew what some of friends and ‘ogas’ where making from Steemit. As I ventured on my Steemit journey I found something very significant. I fell in love with Dan Larimers creation. I began to realizes that it is more profitable to do what the platform was created for in the first place which is socialize. So Steemit is going to pay me to Socialize and make friends. Wow!

Now I have a new perspective, a new strategy. Instead of looking for ways to game the platform, I can socialize and curate and create content, I can try to serve my followers.
Today I have a total of 300 followers and I'm very grateful.

If you have taken time to read this post up to this point please comment ‘300+ and counting’ below and I will send you a tip’. Offer valid for the first few people. This is just my way of celebrating my 300+ followers achievement. Resteeming this post can also guarantee that you get the SBD gift.

HOW TO SOCIALIZE IN STEEMIT.

BE FRIENDLY
I know it sounds too obvious but this is important. If you want friends or followers, you have to be friendly. No one wants to follow an a** hole who is just rude abusive or possess whatever unfriendly character.

MAKE GOOD COMMENT
Comment on people's post. Yeah! Care about what people are saying. Don't just say, ‘well done’, or ‘thank you’ or some automated trollish nonsense. Give a good and well thought out comment and you will be rewarded. Some of the people I am currently following are people who made some connection to my work through their comments.

I have noticed another set of people who no matter what I post their comment is always ‘great work’; I don’t know how to get them off my comment box, lol. Commenting on Steemit can also be very rewarding. Do you know that the first person to comment in @craiggrant’s posts usually gets about $1. I have also seen a comment that bagged $42.

REPLY TO COMMENTS
I was chatting with @ogochukwu the other day and this guy told me that someday he has had to cancel a scheduled post so as to respond to comments on his previous post. No wonder he is pretty successful. If someone spends their precious time to read and make a comment on your post, please respond and upvote their comments too.

GIVE
Give and it shall be given unto you(the bible). If you want to make friends in Steemit you are going to have to give. Give your time, give your expertise, give your upvote, comments, e.t.c.
Whatever you are doing must be adding some sort of value to your followers.

FOLLOW ME
I have seem some really funny newbies that will just come to steemit and start writing wonderful articles and hoping that their ‘quality content’ is going to give them followers. I laugh in Chinese. Baby, if you want followers you are going to have to fish for them, you are going to have to follow people too. This is very true if you are not an established blogger or vloger with huge reputation and following. I recommend that if you are not a really good blogger or content creator, your first week on steemit should be for socializing, commenting and making friends. Don’t waste your time creating quality content that no one will see or upvote. If you have a good number of friends on steemit then you will have people to upvote your post even if it is just a picture. I don’t mean you should go around spamming people’s post with ‘follow me I follow you’. Anyway, I’m sure you know what I mean.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. Please leave a comment on what has helped you making friends on Steemit and I will upvote or reply.

Thank you for reading.