@littlewhale, there are good points, but it's important to also remember how people use web sites... additional apps and community features need to be integrated seamlessly under the greater Steemit interface-- as more people join Steemit, the "next marginal user" is going to be less and less "technical" and will just want everything to work in one place... otherwise it becomes *"too much hassle." In this case, specifically talking about peer-to-peer contact... who'd be using Facebook if you had to go to a different site to send a Facebook message?

And yes, we definitely need to give things more time. Even twitter is 11 years old and still trying to find a business model that's income producing... and it's a HUGE platform with 300+ million users. A lot of the "selling off" we're seeing is probably due to early adopters taking profits... they were never here to be long term investors, just to make a profit and go. This happens with "regular" companies all the time... some of the "angel" investors cash in as soon as the company has its IPO. So now the long term buy and hold people start investing for the longer term. But we DO have to build something here worth investing in.