Today's sketch which also fit's my question, am I meant to use Bots?

Here is the fuller version of the sketch (which fittingly will go into my Singularity series)

Now, I am serious, dear Steem: Am I meant to use BOTS or not? I have to confess I don't entirely understand what they are. I had not tried them (and still not sure I did it right) until this past week.

What lead to me 'giving it a go' was that I noticed some of the people I like to frequent had, in their list of upvotes, bot names. I would follow it to the link and it would exclaim "Send X amount of SBD or STEEM and use post link". So, I did a couple that were around .7 SBD. And I did get an increase and thought, "well,that seems cool."

Then I noticed another bot someone used and they wanted around 4SBD and so I thought about it and said, "Well, you can't win for losing and nothing ventured nothing gained". I mean, in some ways I consider a portion of my crypto as investments and with that you have to take a gamble upon which you sometime lose or win.

For example, back in the first dotcom boom @winstonalden and I had bought some land to build a house before prices shot up, long story short we decided to sell the land and we took all the profits and put it into dotcom stocks...well, we all know how that turned out. SO that lesson learned was don't put ALL your EGGS in one BASKET.

When I told @winstonalden I had put in 4SBD but my post was at 25 I thought that good. Then he explained to me that the 25 I see is NOT just SBD, so basically, I most likely just made my money back? Still not 100% certain on how STeem and SBD is divided on our posts. @winstonalden has explained it to me a few times, but I can feel my eyes glaze over as he goes on about it.

But, back to bots. I don't even truly understand what it is. I saw another person had used one that linked me to this site that has all the bots updating constantly and then you are meant to bid or some such? Again, blind faith just testing the waters: I chose one under 1 SBD and bid. I noticed on my posts I would get messages that read "You have received X% of upvote from @donnadavisart. And I thought, "Hmm, well, that's me?!"

When I was sitting at my drawing desk this morning considering the day's sketch, my first thought of course went to an android lady. My new obsession with my Singularity series often has them uppermost in my mind. Then I thought about how I was attempting to use a bot, of which I do not understand, to get a result in this new burgeoning digital world of Steemit. I rather felt like one of my hybrid Singularity women: waking up to a world devoid of total understanding, but with an odd desire to attempt actions that might seem appropriate in the world and then judge the response.

Thus, I stand before you, Steemit, semi plugged in, semi human, wondering, am I meant to use Bots, to plug in this way? I don't know? Can you help an android out? ;)

I would honestly like to know what bots are and if you use them. Are they a boon to your posts to get your items out there or are they some odd hidden virus set to take away the humanity of Steem? Please let me know if you use them and if I should or should not.

I hope your day is filled with answers to your questions and upvotes to your posts :)

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