I found that a lot of the posts I had been seeing on facebook were mostly self-involved and querulous.

Plus when facebook decides to run tests on its' users happiness levels by showing only sad feeds to some groups and positive feeds to others? No thanks, I don't want to be a lab rat!

The integrity and engagement of steemit users, (and let's not forget the ability to help financially support content creators that we appreciate), has been a big eye opener to me in terms of how and why we are using social media.