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RE: Real Talk About Friends On Steem... Or Lack Thereof
You're salt of the Earth my friend and give me hope that there are others waiting to break out of their shells...
I share all of your sentiments expressed here and when I get to feeling like there's no point in being genuine here I seem to table upon one of your uplifting posts. There's not too many non steem investors here and the distinction between those that are invested have a stark contrast. I'd totally road trip it to hang out and jam or have an exosteem friendship with you and a handful of others. I thought I'd find more than a half dozen people I feel the same way about after nearly a year here but perhaps this just isn't a social niche that is accepting of humans that value humanity above all else..
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It's hard to find people on the same wavelength or with the same values. Then it's harder to find people who have the time or interest to leave the comfort of their Steem persona and let their guard down outside of it.
Maybe people want their privacy too much, or don't have much to share outside of Steem, but if Steem disappeared, the reality is that 99% of us would be out of touch and lose contact.
People can't meet much with geography and oceans in the way, but people sure can open up to get to know each other personally. Mechanical posts/comments just don't do it for me.
The speech is one of the greatest of all times. We have the power!
Machine steeming is not my cup of tea either. I actually have made a friend IRL via steem, it turns out a steemian lives about a mile from me and we hang out regularly and only briefly discuss steem face to face...
The lack of messaging on chain is possibly to blame as its an extra step to find someone on discord and even as open and direct as I am here I'd never publish my email or phone number.
There's certainly a disconnect that is only accentuated by a lack real time options to communicate. Stories, going live, dms are the staples of p2p interaction online and steem has none of that. Time zone differences are also at play with a global network but I agree it's mostly the pervasive culture of monetization and fear. Not to mention the art of conversation and storytelling are not fostered in this modern gadget driven seclusion many seen to be ok with..
Steem is a peculiar place filled with all kinds of folks from all walks of life that have no inclination to reveal their true nature. It's the age of avatars and filters.. I can sense a genuine human from across the seas and through the posturing..
B-to-the-ingo. It's annoying for me to play along with some people's filtered online persona, but eventually the cream rises to the top and genuine human form peeks through (which I enjoy seeing).
Alternatively, some people are genuine on Steemit because it's public, but have two faces in smaller groups/tribes on Discord. That irks me quite a bit.
Oh yes the disco dancers I seent em too.. We're all in this thing together so I do try to keep open lines of communication with all that cross my path... Can't do much about my muters though 😂 Pity them missing out on my difficult to dismiss trolling.
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