I was reading a similar post yesterday on somewhat the same topic. Unless you have a fan base or friends and family who will interact with you, it is difficult to make anything out of your Steem account.

For example, you can always count on Mom to like everything their son or daughter posts. Or, friends teasing each other and liking each other's posts of a shared experience allows everybody to win.

To that end, it is to our benefit to get people, our friends and family, to open a Steem account and check in on occasion. That has to count for a few likes.