Off to a good start

What a great and addictive adventure Steemit has already been! I know that I said that my first real post would be about my experience with side hustles from home, but I am just bubbling with excitement and thoughts about being on Steemit. So I just thought I would jot them down and share that. Let's call this Introduction post 1.5

I have recently persuaded my partner to get an app for his phone to kinda control how much he uses it. He agrees that he might spend a bit too much time on Facebook and gets too caught up in random Youtube videos…we all know that feeling. But since I got my profile here, four days ago, I am now the one with a social media addiction - I keep checking replies to my post, looking for interesting posts to reply to, finding people to follow etc.

I feel hooked and keep checking in. It feels a bit like playing a computer game. You have a score, upvotes, replies, followers and you go out in "the field" to explore and gain more valuable stats. It is very addicting. I did not come up with that allegory myself. Somebody in a podcast or Ted talk - or Youtube video - once described Twitter as being a new form of computer game, playing the game of getting followers. And I think Steemit takes that game to another level.

My first days here have also been very encouraging for me. I am sure that there are people who do much better, but I feel like I am off to a good start. I am getting a lot of nice comments and help from the community. A lot of the comments has opened my eyes to new concepts, stats, competitions, and new words - and sometimes it does feel a little bit overwhelming, and hard to figure out what is going on.

Actually, speaking of new words...This here paragraph I am writing today, and the rest was written up and ready to go yesterday. But then the concept of Resource Credits hit me hard. When trying to post I was presented with a message of transaction error, and I could not do anything active on Steemit for the rest of the day. I learned that Resource Credits is another stat to keep an eye on, and it limits the amount of action you can perform during a given time period. I am still not sure if my 17 percent will be enough to post this today, we shall see...

Somewhere it was mentioned that uploading pictures with your post use a lot of your credits. I thought it might be worth being aware of in the future, and make sure pictures are not bigger than they have to. I have been used to resize pictures using Photoshop, but while traveling I was told about a neat trick - you can install a tiny programme that lets you resize pictures by right-clicking on them. It is very easy. Maybe people already know this or have other ways, and it was only a revelation to me. But here is a link to get that little add-on for Windows.

Image Resizer

I have a question: I would like to ask, what app people like to use to be able to go on Steemit from their phone and/or tablet? Is it Esteem or Partiko or something else?

I know, getting an app like that will just feed my newfound addiction and guilty pleasure, but so be it!

P.s: The photo I used in this post is by photographer Jungwoo Hong. I found it on a website with free stock photos. I can not remember which one, but I thought I would share links to some sites I use often. They are all free and very good quality, in my humble opinion.

Kaboompics
Stocksnap.io
Pixabay
Picjumbo