You can see what your Steemit Friends are doing like you do on Facebook in the news feed, the same as other websites. Twitter has the same thing. On Steemit, you click on the Steemit icon one or two times to get there. Your feed of your following, your friends, is
http://Steemit.com/@purplealyss/feed

My newsfeed is http://steemit.com/@joeyarnoldvn/feed