Ultimately, I want to write and then engage over my writing, but just like anywhere else around the Internet, people need to know you exist, let alone like what you write, and so that typically means going out to meet them once you know they're there, and engaging over things they post or like first.

It's what I want to do, it's just not what I'm naturally inclined to do, so this engagement league is helpful in getting me out there.

In addition to that, I keep running into lovely people who do actually want to engage back. People who I can have honest, meaningful discussions with. I think that's good for me, hopefully good for them, good for Steemit, and ultimately, our society as a whole, if there's at least a portion of us keeping communication alive.

And if anything like an abiding friendship springs out of it, all the better. I think that's possible, too. Three months in, it's hard to call anything a longstanding anything, let alone friendship, but I'd like to be here for the long haul to see what happens with that too, as long as there's a long haul to be had. :)