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## Thoughts On Interactive Engagement

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Some days ago, *[I read this post by @acidyo](https://hive.blog/hive-173737/@acidyo/whats-your-comment-to-post-ratio-like)* the post was talking about activating a more *"social aspect"* to hive, just as it is done to the financial aspect too. Immediately, the first thing that came to my mind was breaking *protocols* and breaking *circles*. 

Now, what do I mean by this? Firstly, some percentage of the community are building a social framework that's 100% Financially beneficial to them, they would claim that their relationship stems from the fact that they're free to choose who they want to associate with. However, the motive can clearly be read from how they chose the people they talk to and how it influences their payout. In the post above, it specifically talks about **numbers**. 

But one thing I've come to realize is that the metrics to judge engagement shouldn't be by numbers, but by the wide range of reach or impact. Hive like I used to say, is **a conglomerate of individuals** loosely or tightly bound by so many actions and activities. 




Now **interaction,** or what you'll call **engagement,** is what makes hive social, but when you talk about social, you have to break it further down. Is it interaction based on class, stake, holdings, level, ages of account, common interest, or sameness with goals and ambitions? 

Some people build these social ladders based on just only one of the *factors* stated above, making it difficult to engage widely. Their reach would be limited to some certain extent. Now social engagement should firstly be built on *entertainment* and *retention*, and why is this? 

While hive is more than a social network, its communal aspects shouldn't be sacrificed for economic superiority, else we'll all just be a group of individuals fighting for *"a piece of bone"*. We're aiming to create an *all-round* platform, it's of course expected that one aspect might tend to overshadow the others, but this is where it becomes our duty to balance it out. 

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## The Social Impact/Effect

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Engagement is one of the ways to actually boost retention, but we wouldn't say we're engaging if we are not exploring other aspects of the community. People shouldn't be numbers, it's important to see the essence of the *sociocultural* view into their avatars. Some people don't see newbies as important to the growth of the system because they think their aim is to just *milk* the system. 

Even if this were so, a constant interaction or engagement with them can of course change this narrative. How do I mean? Huge accounts sometimes act as inspiration to  smaller accounts, a big user might not necessarily drop a vote for a small account, but seeing their content out of the blue, interacting with them would rub off on their initial views, goals or aims towards the chain, thus, the relationship wouldn't be based on just sharing votes but a deeper human connection beyond the resources or money.

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 > **Healthy social interactions influences  creates a cyclical influence**

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Back in the days on leofinance @trumpman created this vibe and buzz that tend to be *influencing*, I was an individual aiming only to build on hive and never saw prospects with the tribes token. This doesn't make me a bad person, I was only uninformed and had no social interaction with people who could tell me the importance of the tribe's token. 

In fact I began to buy into Leo, due to his endless shilling and today, leofinance, personal finance has been inculcated into some of my major activities on the chain. What made the transition better?

 It was the power of social interaction. Sometimes the relationship shouldn't be based on *"whale to whale"* or *"piranha to piranha"*, one of the most important aspect of interaction is that it tends to create a cycle of positive influence but if people base the interactions on demo graphs, their knowledge or skills will not teach, inform or Influence others, especially people who are struggling to understand what they could do and why they should do it. 


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### Activating Dynamism


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Make no mistake, the advent of communities has bridged this divide to some extent, Nevertheless It's still an issue. Hive has  created some of the most reliable relationships, better than most social platforms on the internet. This is to say that building trust isn't about knowing one's financial prowess or capacity.

 It's about social understanding them to even the simplest details. This is how Financial goals are then built based on knowledge sharing on peer to peer levels. This is why I feel that engagement isn't and shouldn't be able numbers but the impact, the reach, how diverse it is.

 Engagement might feel stale, but the "word" interaction seems dynamic and colorful. A group of people sharing ideas to only benefit themselves doesn't represent the concept of community, it's rather oligarch in nature and limits or creates a segregating aura. Going forward, we must do better as a chain. 






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