Thanks for sharing your experience with this topic @curlfamilyvlog! Thanks for sharing some of your stats - that really helps add to the conversation here. One of the biggest things I noticed when I first joined Steemit was the depth and quality of comments. On other content sites - people will often leave short, unremarkable comments like "Nice video!".
Here people really engage and get to know each other. :) It's so cool.
it makes it feel like you are actually connecting with a person. And that is what social networks should be all about. The rest is just extra.