It's an very interesting post and there is so much truth in it. 1000 followers sounds impressive (I celebrate over 100 followers for myself today :D ) but your closer look at the stats sounds a little disappointing for the first moment. I'm not as deep in social networks as most of the other people, because I haven't seen any sens in it for a long time. All I wanted was showing my work to some other artist, seeing theirs work and talk about it. From the beginning of my 3D carrier to 2011 it works well. I've used forums and online galleries but something changed since then. A lot of people are gone and hang out on Facebook and co. I have a Facebook account too (since 2013) but just for family and close friends. I'm not a fan of Facebook, Instagram and so on. It's so... impersonal in my opinion. On steemit you have to say "Hello" before you get a place at the table. And people have to talk with each other and read what others people have written to get some personal information. Not like on Facebook where you click on a profile and see the whole life of a person. At the end it doesn't care how much followers you have . If you have a small bunch of people watching your stuff and reading your posts and you can read theirs, you've already won. :) But it can't be bad to have some more. I'm not sure if a clear my point of view (because my English is not as good as it should be) but I hope so. :)