When I started many of my friends and family members joined too. 90% of them are gone, I almost gave up too once or twice. But just like everyone told in the beginning: the first 3 months are critical, almost no one survives.Just like in anything in your life, you can't give up on things just because it gets rough.

But truth is Steem isn't for everyone. If you don't create good content, if you're not a web developer, a nerd, a geek, or whatever, you obviously aren't going to make it. Most people want to make steem out of a picture of the coffee they had in the morning, and that's not how this works at all. You have to unerstand a little bit of how the community works, otherwise, you're lost.