I have to agree with you. On steemit you can get followers by making good quality posts, people don’t have to know you. I ‘met’ some people here that I directly liked because we shared a same passion and felt like they are nice people that I wanted to be connected with although I never met them in person. In e.g. facebook you have to know people in real life to build a network.
I’ll discuss steemit with some friends the upcoming days and see what they think about it. We usually use whatapp to share ideas and stories with each other and I’m curious what they think about using another platform (that even pays them to read and like stories).
Maybe it’s because I’m still a beginner and don’t know how to use steemit properly but my feed can be flooded sometimes with posts. If I would be following more people, how can I read posts by the people I really like? Maybe steemit has a solution for it, but I haven’t found it yet.