50-50. A Cool Coincidence.
hive-196233·@depressedfuckup·
0.000 HBD50-50. A Cool Coincidence.
I’ve thought about writing this post the past 3 days but always thought it’d be silly or something. But after 3 days, the universe seems to want me to write this. Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to head over to my profile and look at two things, my follower and following numbers. If it still stays the same by the time you’re reading this, you should see they’re both 50. 50-50 is literally used as an expression my local language for “balanced” and the fact that my following/follower number really lands on the numbers is a very cool coincidence wouldn’t you agree? A perfect balance between following and followers!  <center>image was designed by me in canva</center> There’s a very good chance though that by the time you read this, someone else who saw this earlier would’ve tipped the scale by either following or unfollowing(I hope no one does lol). I know if I had seen a post like this, I most likely would’ve followed to tip the scale. I’m not saying this to in any way, influence you to follow me though, even though that would be much appreciated. I haven’t really been looking at my following and followers list. I looked at it a couple days back when I was trying to figure out what date I made my Hive intro post. I know, “why were you looking for that information?”…It was to fill an application for the newbies initiative, a really great initiative that educates newbies on the workings of Hive. Basically, the dos and don’ts, how to do stuff and things like that. A part of the information required was to enter the date you made your introductory post, and your first after it. I won’t go much into detail about it, but you can check [this post](https://ecency.com/hive-153850/@newbies-hive/newbies-initiative-application-now-open-2022-second-eddition) out if you want to know more about it and to apply. This will be especially helpful if you’re a newbie.  <center>screenshot taken on my phone</center> Now, back to topic. I haven’t really cared about the number of followers I have, simply engaged with people. That is not to say I don’t care about growing a following. I just think your following is not really up to you, but up to your content and the community, so there’d be no point stressing out about it. What I do stress over is my HP which for now, seems to be growing at a fairly good pace. Whiles I’m on the topic of followers and following, I think it’d be great to mention something interesting I saw in [acidyo’s recent post](https://ecency.com/hive-196233/@acidyo/what-happened-to-being-genuine). You need to have some time to read this, but I promise you it’s worth it if you have the time. Anyways an interesting thing he said was that he used to follow people back out of courtesy of getting a follow from them. Not just following back, but even voting people back because they did. This might be considered engagement to a lot of people, even me(until I read his post which is quite interesting really), but I saw a different angle to it, and I think I’m going to be more careful at scrutinizing and properly screening the people I follow in the future. In his post, he mentioned how you weren’t *obligated* to follow anyone back or vote them back just because they were doing same for you. I’m not and he wasn’t saying either that you shouldn’t follow or vote people people back after they follow or vote you, he just said to do it because you’re genuinely interested in the content they produce. Essentially what this means is that you’ll be genuinely interested in the posts that show on your *friends* feed, and will foster your engagement with them since their content are topics you’re interested in. I don’t know where I’m headed with this post anymore and it has already a bit longer than I had planned so I’ll just leave it here. I know you found the idea of me writing about the 50-50 balance silly. If it is, I think we’ll both agree it’s a silly interesting coincidence though eeh:)  <center>[source](https://ecency.com/hive-196233/@ubani1/rct-contest-a-logo-and-backkground)</center> - - - # <center>Who Authored This Post?</center>  <center>Designed by me in canva</center> <sub>I am @depressedfuckup. The story behind my weird username is in [my intro post](https://ecency.com/hive-174578/@depressedfuckup/my-introductory-post-and-my-6-month-fuck-up-story-of-how-i-spent-myself-broke) if you have the time to read. I am a newbie and a content creator on Hive and a Biochemistry student outside of Hive. I write about my present, generally things going on with or around me. Please give this article an upvote and a reblog if you liked the content and leave a comment if you have something to say about it. Thanks for visiting my blog, have a great day!</sub> # <center>Browse & Earn With Presearch</center> [](https://presearch.com/?rid=4325530)