RE: Dear Steemian, What is Your Opinion on Meeting Strangers from Steemit?
That's a frickin good question.
Steemit is not an online dating service where people try to only show there best side hide all the flaws and ugly spots.
So I reckon there is more honesty in this platform since most people are into the same kinda topics and ideas.
But you are right, we are talking Crypto, Money and Investment too, so we should be careful who we trust and under which circumstances we may meet in the real life. We might be easily used and exploited and there are definitely some black sheep in the Steemit family too. So meeting at a public place together with other people around might be some better idea. And if you want to be in the safer side, maybe leaving a lost whom and where you gonna meet before you heading out. Just to leave some hinds in the worst case that something really bad my happen.
I had little similar thoughts about sharing to many of out information openly and freely on this platform, so I put them into my last German post yesterday. To not be exploited we need to think twice and use more commons sense than we think we actually do.
Well, obviously there are some things that you wouldn't share on the blockchain, but for example, there is a lot of gift sending to Steemit friends etc going on at the moment, so there has to be a certain element of trust there to give someone your name and address.
Important is to use comment sense when interacting on- as well as offline. Many users have already put out their real names in their introduction posts, maybe not always the full name though. So a certain level of trust seems to exist what I appreciate
Meant to say that sharing is done off the blockchain, in the discord channels.
|To be frank, I wouldn't say this platform is more honest, cause most people care about their rep score and upvotes and try not to offend anyone while trying to kiss the nearest whale's ass.
Yes, there is a certain amount of that going on. But there are people here who write what they want to write, without being dictated by what they think people want to read, or for instant riches, but because they have strong beliefs in something. These are the interesting people, the non-sheep. The ones that are here for the long haul, not just a quick buck.
Yes this is also true, so then it might be just another mirror of our society.
I couldn't agree more with you. But so is the case in life as well.. We can't change it. But we can choose if we want to meet and be with such people. Some people don't care if the others are genuine or not, as long as they like them...