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RE: Not Everything is HOT or TRENDING: How Our Obsession with Popularity Shrinks our Choices
Relationships-- yes. I remember some of your earliest posts here... and I see something I'm starting to think of as "the Steemit Effect;" people arrive here with lots of plans and ideas on how to make the most of the site... and after a few months the focus becomes more on "community and connecting."
I observe the same in myself... I came here to "write articles" which is something I've been doing for 20 years; but I've gradually become far more personal and "conversational" with my posts.
I've definitely made a lot of good connections with people here on this site, and those connections have been monetarily profitable, and of course, the connections themselves have value. My point was simply that none of that came about by trying to hit the trending page :)