Thanks for your feedback!
I agree, that getting to know eachother and building trust is essential for the success of the social networking aspect of steem, but in my opinion the steem blockchain has also the potential to become a widley used crypto payment system for everyday use. We have real name wallets, zero transaction fees, only 3 second confirmations and one of the blockchains with the highest bandwith. If we are able to create a market containing exclusive content, there will also be the desire to buy/earn Steem, to get this exclusive content.

So basically Steem is developing into a whole ecosystem, where Steemit is only one (but still essential) part of the game.