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It's the coping with the loss of the cat that makes me not want to socialize with people in real life right now.
But it happens quite regularly that I hold off other people. My friends are a delight, but because I'm pretty hypersensitive, social encounters take up a lot of energy. I pick up every little signal - whether it is something they say, or just what they don't say, or the way they say it. And then there are al the non-verbal signals...
Since I haven't been at the top of my game for the last 10 months (depression, pain, sadness, surgery etc.), I often don't have the energy to deal with all that on top of my own stuff.
howdy today @simplymike..oh I completely understand why you would want to avoid people while going through all that painful stuff.
Then steemit becomes even more important because you don't have to worry about non-verbal signals and most people here truly care about you and share your pain and heartaches.
thanks so much for your reply, thoughts and explanations.
True. When interacting on SteemIt, everything is quite clear. There are no intonations, no non-verbal signals... everything is pretty straight-forward. It'srefreshing, really. And although it still takes up some energy, I get quite a lot of positive energy in return :0)
howdy again @simplymike! yes Ma'am I find the same thing about postive energy return, it's rather remarkable but then I've never been on a social media site before so I don't know if this is typical or not, have you been on fb or anywhere?
I'm still using FB for personal stuff, and I've been using almost every social media site you can think of before, when I still had my biz.
But SteemIt is different. For me, it started out as another marketing opportunity, but it became very personal pretty quickly, lol.
On my personal FB account, I only have my real life friends befriended, so they are kind of obliged to send me positive energy, lol. On SteemIt, every single person I talk to is a complete stranger - there's no one I have ever met in real life. I have never really been a comunity-minded person, but the SteemIt comunity is something really special, and I've never seen such a thing anywhere before...
howdy today @simplymike! well isn't that interesting...perhaps there really isn't anything like it anywhere else, that fact would lend itself to the argument that Steemit can be self-sustaining no matter what happens in the crypto markets.
Ya'll are so experienced here..and you are an entrepreneur! What was your biz or is it still?
When I lost my first job as a teacher, I wanted to do something else. It started with my own webshop, but soon I got involved in internet marketing and website development.
After 15 years I was so tired of writing the same, recycled sales pages and email follow-up series I decided I needed a break. That wqs around the same time I got into crypto
For more than a year I dedicated my time to learning how crypto worked (very basic, because tech is not my cup of tea). After a while I started building crypto-related websites and promoted crymto-related (affiliate) products.
Then I bumped into Steemit which absorbed all my time.
I still have a couple of websites, and a +20k mailing list, but everything is as good as dormant.
Every once in a while, I start to feel that itch again: when I come across a wordpress plugin or a software tool with potential, I find oit the passion is starting to grow again.
However, a lot of work needs to be done before I can get started again. I have been really stupid and missed the renewal opportunity of my main website domain. It has now been sold to someone else, so I can't use my own brand name anymore.
Maybe, one day, I'll have the time , energy and courage to start again :0)
howdy today @simplymike! it is probably already late afternoon there I'm not good on these time differences but wow what an interesting ride you've had online!
did you have decent success in internet marketing? I tried it for a couple of years and was looking for some way to make money online when I found Steemit, but you were actually doing it and for such a competitive market that was impressive of you to be able to survive and make money.
Is it true that 95% of internet marketers fail to make any money?
But if the price of Steem goes back up, which I think it will, and Steemit continues to grow and improve, will you still seek other marketing ventures?
I'm sorry you lost your main domain name, what was it? that had to sting.
thanks so much simplymike, are you still out there doing the dreadful walking?