RE: What If You Treated Steemit As If It Were Your Pension Fund?
Looks like you are preaching to the choir. This excellent post sums up my experience on theses other 'social' networks.
I dumped Fakebook a long time ago when I had 100's of 'friends'.
I created new accounts on twitter and facebook just to see who would follow them.
I have over 1,000 twitter followers of which I know only 4?
I post my steemit blogs to both and have no idea what the uptake is. Too early to tell. I've only been on steemit for one week so not much traffic data.
I've earned more in one week on steemit for doing exactly what I like and enjoy. Reading and interacting with some very articulate people who know how to argue and debate without getting bent out of shape or becoming abusive.
I've come across some great people and interesting ideas and blogs some of which I have followed.
Not many but enough to see that this is a long term project for me.
I earned zip from facebook and cannot understand why people are wasting so much of their valuable time there?
Full transparency. I did do the ice bucket challenge for the ALS charity just to give it some publicity but I didn't send them the $10 donation. I thought that was a bit of a cheek.
I am on Twitter as FinnianGC, but the primary purpose of that account is to get local breaking news. The site is very good for that. It's like a modern day CB radio. Once a week I get on there and search for my city to go through the tweets too. You learn a lot about your local area without having to pick up a newspaper or watch the local news. The information is coming from individuals and isn't filtered by the media as well. That's always a plus!
That's a useful way to use twitter and in reality that is what a real social network looks like. Small clusters of people who usually know each other or the local area. Think more in terms of Whatsapp etc. That is real interaction with people you know.
Fakebook is an abomination and the user base are largely clueless to what is really going on. All those dumb addictive games where people spend hours and real money to win baubles? Reminds me of the Roman games that keep the public entertained while millions were enslaved.
Steemit is part of the answer.
It wasn't only the fact that everyone lives a double life on facebook it was also the "information bubble" you can find yourself in as their formulae is set to give you more of what you like, it's kind of hard to break out of that bubble using these trend driven forms of social media, I found myself scrolling and scrolling for hours and not really learning anything new, even when I decided to just use facebook app when I was on the toilet I felt myself becoming dumber by the second and in a weird way addicted to the trash content.
haha, don't blame you for participating, my wife did it too ;)
Haha we all got sucked into that one. Facebook is a disaster. People have invested so much time and energy into it that they find it almost impossible to quit.
I use it purely as a marketing tool for my steemit posts now. Virtually no time spent there at all.