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RE: WHY WE NEED TO BE HONEST ABOUT WHAT STEEMIT IS!
Yes I think so, too. And the other way it can backfire is if the person can't stand Facebook the way I can't! I actually made the mistake initially on joining Steemit of telling my friend who mines Ether that he should join Steemit and describing it as "Facebook without ads and with much more interesting and intelligent people." This was inaccurate and also reacted against it because he can't stand Facebook either. So I switched the way I am describing.
Yeah I hadn't thought about it from that point of view. If you don't like Facebook why would you go and join a similar type of social network. It's just really unhelpful misrepresenting what steemit actually is.
Yes, though you have to admit Steemit is a bit hard to describe!
I don't really think it is. Right now Steemit is a blogging platform, strictly speaking I wouldn't even call it social media.
True it's a blogging platform, but it's also very interactive. WordPress is also a blogging platform, but I've never socialized with other bloggers on there or shared questions/posts/contests across WordPress. And then there's the whole cryptocurrency angle...
I wouldn't compare it with Wordpress although strictly speaking deep down wordpress is a Content Management System. But if you look at the likes of Medium or Redit the similiarties are clearer than that of Facebook.
Yes Reddit seems like a pretty clear parallel. I haven't checked out Medium before, but I will.