This really hits my nerves at the right spot! I have been thinking about trying to find more followers but it has been very difficult to find people with the profiles or characters that I will want to really follow and read their blogs . I knew people who have many followers tend to have more upvotes and higher reputation.
Yet when I got people following me and asked me to follow them back in their comments, I couldn't return the favour everytime. This is because I have to check their posts and decide whether I want to have their posts in my feed each day. So, I am still struggling to increase my followers by commenting on others ' blogs and up voting those I would like to be connected with.
Things don't always work out. I may be very interested in some whale-bloggers, but they don't reciprocate because they don't find my posts interesting. On ther hand, people to whom I didn't respond to their requests, would unfollow me within a day.
So, I have resigned to the fact that numbers of followers are not very helpful to me. I would like to connect with people whose posts I like to read everyday.
Sorry for going on too long. It's just your post has shed light on my dilemma and I have to find out my own ways to build up my own niche of friends in this community.
Cheers.