being guilty in my first week here on steemit of doing this follow4follow thing, I totally agree with you. I grew my first 100 followers this way. I am approaching 500 but to be fair I think a lot of them are still follow4follow people who didnt realize I didnt follow back.

I interact with a handful of steemers pretty much everyday and a couple more a couple times a week.

As steemit is still very anonymous it is sometimes hard to see who you are interacting with especially if they dont have a profile pic (note to myself get a profile pic).
And it is way more fun this way.

I saw people celebrating their 1000st follower, following over 3000 people and have no real interaction on their post.

I really really hope if someday I can make such a post most of my followers will be celebrating with me.