For me it is that Summer is my busiest time. On top of my usual daily art I have two cottages I let weekly (sometimes simply for a few nights) so that adds to my work load. Add to that my own idiotic choice to rebuild my website myself and the increased things I am trying to do in the digital world and it equals one post a day if I am lucky and not enough time to comment on everyone. Phew, and apparently not enough to make coherent sentences but just run ons et al.
I find it funny that people would choose FB for anything. I only go on there now to post a piece of my artwork like a few things and then I have to get off. I just don't have enough time nor want to use my precious ME time on it.
Even at the current price steemit is still an amazing thing and one in which I hope to see more of as the digital world and crypto earnings evolve.
Certainly sounds like you're working with a full plate. Sounds rather familiar... my relative "scarcity" around here these days are as often as not the result of my daily schedule.
I guess a lot of people are despairing because their illusions (delusions?) of "blogging for a living on Steemit" are turning out to actually not be any more feasible than "posting on YouTube for a living."
I still use FB, but only as a promotional tool for certain niche writing... because I happened to build a page there with 17K likes. Hard to turn my back on that.
Steemit remains an amazing opportunity; people just need to refocus the false idea that you're going to be handed $1000's on a plate for little work. Sound "too good to be true?" That's because it IS. Which is not to take anything away from the 50 or so people who ARE making a living here!
Exactly, and even if it gave one the 'income' of a small part time job at a cafe, say, then wouldn't you rather write and share your thoughts for some 'tip money' then just for free or actually slinging coffee? Who knows?
The human animal is an odd creature and the way they are 'formulated' today BY social media is a sort of set up to give them high expectations with low results. I think it is part of the system that keeps people hooked on it in the first place, but maybe I'm just crazy thinking that.
And of course if someone was an early adopter or has the right 'connections' they might be killing it on here, but that doesn't mean everyone can't enjoy it, right? I happen to really like the art collective on here. Being an artist and an introvert I honestly get something from this place that is not monetary, in that I feel a good connection with other creatives and I feel I have genuine 'chats' with people. I mean I suppose they could all be bots or just 'playing the game' but it's working for me, so I'm happy :)
As a fellow introverted artist, I really need to look more into the artistic end of Steemit. So far, I haven't really explored much of that angle; I also work with art daily through our small independent art gallery here.
A lot of what I get from Steemit is also non-monetary... a return to the kind of "Social Blogging" that was very popular around 1999-2005... I missed that format, and Steemit was a very timely arrival, in that sense.
I know, I'm sort of feeling that old school blogging love coming back because of steemit. I did a blog/project in 2009-11 when really blogging was just sort of beginning to peak out, but I had such a loyal band of followers and we'd look forward to our 'chats' in the comment section everyday, then it seemed to just all be eclipsed by the quick pointless quips of Facebook and then the emoji's and memes. Oh well. Maybe blogging will continue to come back with platforms such as steemit.