Share your thoughts! Introduction of the concept
Hello steemians,
I am changing my way of posting with a new concept!
When i see a comment on my post that inspire me to write a detailed answer, i will upvote the comment to thank the author and i will answer with a new post to add visibility and share our thought together.
So continue to comments my post to let the talk going! Community talk :)
I will pick some of your subjects for my next posts!
Each day is a suprise and i never know in advance what i will talk about, it's exciting!
I will probably not be able to do it everyday because i am loaded with work but i will try my best.
Here we go:
First thank you for your kind words and your comment musicayfarandula!
The tricky thing about steemit and i think i've never mentionned it here before:
Steemit is a gateway to cryptocurrencies, most new users are probably attracted by the rewards system and the cool concept of winning money simply being active on a social media paltform.
Nowadays most people spend a large amount of hours on social media for FREE.
In fact not totally free, just have a look at the revenue generated by twitter, snapchat, facebook...
Social media is a huge business running on top users that never see a pennies extracted from their data, energy and social activities.
Modern slavery as usual, big company keep making profits from users with no fair distribution whatsoever and everybody thought nothing different could be done before blockchain technology and steemit!
More often than not, i am sure new steemit suscribers don't even know what blockchain or cryptos are.
They come first for the rewards, then they try to cash out some money, oops how does it work?
They have to search for informations, register an account on crypto exchange...
Finally they slowly discover the concept and revolution of cryptocurrencies and i believe they progressively change their mi nd as soon as they understand how it works and what is the purposes.
Slowly they develop close link with others steemians, love to share, take pleasure participiting in this great community and learn more and more about all kind of subject reading good contents everyday.
I am sure more and more knowledge they get more and more they believe it is a revolution and want to be a part of it, buy some steem, post and earn some tokens, hold and power up as much as possible because they see the long term potential of steemit.
The price of steem start to reflect the adoption effect.
Steemit is a troyan horse to boost crypto adoption.
Crypto community often talk about the killing app that will fuel the crypto mania rocket, i think it is steemit!
Thousand of persons suscribe to steemit everyday and discover our crypto world!
Have a great day :)
Good day sir @damarth. I have discovered that most newbies and unfortunately quite a few "oldbies" mistake steemit for other social media, where people give generic comments without taking a few time to look at the posted content. First and foremost, permit me to appreciate what you are doing; inspiring steemians to appreciate information, contributing their opinions and making those opinions visible. Secondly, thanks for the crypto news you normally share with us from time to time. I enjoy them.
However, the above statement triggers a certain amount of curiosity in me. Well, before I ask my questions, I would like to state my opinion. I believe that steemians who invite new members are partly to be blamed for the ignorance and the "come for the rewards" mentality exhibited by newbies. For I believe if these newbies are well-informed before joining this community, such attitude would diminish drastically. But hell no! People just say "Come join steemit and get paid for whatever do." At the end of the day, when spamming and other means devised to steal the rewards doesn't work out people get discouraged and then 'pack their backpacks' and leave. Hence, leading to dormant accounts.
Consequently, my questions therefore are: What do you tell individuals you invite to steemit? What is your opinion about enlightening newbies? And how should these enlightenment be carried out? Please ignore the bolded fonts, these questions are asked on a light note.
Asa J.
I don't do crypto news anymore because the market goes so fast and there is so many informations that i can only cover a very small part of the reality, have a look at this website to help you to follow what is going on:
http://coinmarketcal.com/?page=1
Thank you for sharing this link, I'm still on the page in another tab right now. The crytocurrency calendar would really assist me to make a well informed crypto investment decisions. Thanks again Sir.
May we see more momentum to the steem currency :)
I especially say thank you for @damarth.
with the steemit is very much experience that I get, because I can go online with various countries, and also with this steemit can bring us communicate every day even every time.
In this steemit is very much to give us insights from the aspect of culture and also the sciences that we have never got before.
And in this steemit I very much got advice from people who are different cultures with me,
I am very happy to get to know steemit.
this is where my first experience can communicate directly with people between countries and cultures ..
And I strongly believe that in this steemit my future will change very well.
Thanks to your #steemit friends all over the world.
I am very happy to have known steemit.
This is smart @damarth ! I appreciate your way of socializing the community. Steemit community need more solidarity, cooperation and interdependency so that every individual will be satisfied and pleased. We actually need to be more interacted with each other and each individual should be spreaded all around this community which makes everyone to be raised in steemit community that will be resulted by sharing and raising the income. Let's make ourselves happy by making everybody happier :)
Superd comment!
It is an interesting world for sure with Cryptos. I am learning something new everyday about them and Steemit. I remember finally learning about them after the bitcoin craze, but after buying bitcoin I was not that excited about. Really you are speculating that it will keep going up in value. When I found Steemit I quickly forgot about bitcoin. I can contribute to a site, and invest in a smaller, better crytpo at the same time. The more time and money I invest, the greater the rewards. I think the biggest problem with bitcoin is the transaction fees. I think that will slow down its growth. i love the concept of Steemit even if I do not fully understand it yet. Not too mention most the crypto currencies are just an idea right now and not active like Steemit.
Hi @damarth actually your post is 100% right and Im in a feeling of be like the same :)
At first when you say STEEMIT first thing on mind to describe are rewards, comment/post will be paid or cryptocurrencies .
As a new member 7days to be exact - 1st day I have a knowledge only that when you post in the community, put some tags and captions you will get a reward( authors reward). 2nd day - you need to upvote other steemians post and also you will get a reward (curation reward). 3rd day communicate with others, comment what you feel about what they posted and be natural the the reputation will grow and your confidence for verbal skills will be powerful. 4th day learned to read more post and to interact with other steemians even you know you will not get anything, but just to support new steemians by inspiring comments. 5th day just have some ideas about crypto currencies but still on processing and needs to read more articles. 6th day- yes! I realized that why we keep posting, sharing and commenting on the social media we will not gaim anything and only the person behind of it have the rewards ( but still i used the FB to commnicate with my family in Philippines) . And last but not the least - 7day I learned to enjoy evething here in this community ! Having friends, new friends, my talents are revealed (big help that my brain is working now.:) ) , communication skill goes up, I expressed what i want to share and ENJOY everything even in real world. :D ..
PS. reward system is the real thing A BIG HELP for me, now I can give more help to my family :).
Once i get my rewards and to know the ideas of crypto or black chain i will use it and help other new steemians by same as i received from others . Thank you @damarth to noticing one of my post :) because you boosted me up and you make me to feel that giving up is not on my list of option :)
STEEM ON !
What a journey for the first week, i really appreciate your comment because i learn a lot from others experiences, thank you Cheche!
@damarth. Your new concept of posting is admirable and at the same time an ingenious one because it's going to power up intelligent conversations and bring forward valuable contributions which would be well appreciated by your followers and the steemit community by extension. I agree with you that the major challenge most new subscribers will have especially those new to the concept of cryptocurrency is the complexities involved in exchanging cryptos for fiat money. Another trend I think is worth noting is that a percentage of people prefer watching videos to reading engaging articles. I believe steemit has the potential to overtake other social media platforms out there probably in a few short years,once word goes round the block about it. I recently just found out about it a week ago,even though I am a year and some months late to the party still I am happy I am one of the early adopters. I am excited about the possibilities here, looking forward to learning and earning with steemit this new year.Will appreciate any tips and pointers on the platform. Thank you. Happy new year my fellow Steemians.
I already realized you like to award people who actually read your posts and people who try to have a conversation about it, and not people who just comment: "informational post, keep up the good work". Also, you're right about new users and their ambitions considering this platform. I think everyone who is thinking of joining Steemit has to first get themselves known about crytocurrency, trading etc. This is not a "get rich quick" scheme but a long-term investment where you connect with other people and (hopefully) you earn some money which is definitely a bonus.
Thank you for doing this @damarth as it brings a new level of communication between Steemit users. I love meeting new individuals and allowing myself to see their thoughts and ideas. It makes this place feel more connected :)
I also truly believe that Steemit is the first step forward in gaining new users and changing their mindset of how a social media platform should be run, and the way that it should give back to the end user instead of using the end user. When individuals see that they can have the same fun as they would on Facebook, Instagram, etc while also receiving rewards for their time, it will propel Steemit to new highs and make it a house hold name. Facebook will be a thing of the past.
So exactly what you described. Indeed, initially I came here because there are paid. But now I learn so many new things. I don't want just to get a coin. I want to learn, grow, invest. I want to stay here. I'm becoming more confident and smarter with Steemit. I go along, I develop their best qualities. I confidently look forward and enjoy every day here. I'm not just wasting time on the social network. I invest this time in my development.
Really cool you're doing this @damarth! Love to see this kind of support for the community from some of more reputable(literally) steemians.
Having just joined a few weeks ago, I absolutely agree. Steemit is going to be a huge player in getting people into crypto. It provides value for everyone, even if you don't want to blog all the time you can casually jump on and comment and still be rewarded. In comparison to other social media its a no brainer.
I think people at this point have accepted that social media is gaining money off of them, but we all like to be connected so we put up with it. Now half the posts on facebook I see are ads and I hear about how youtube is skimping on paying out their content creators.
The great thing about steem is that it rewards people based on the value they bring to others. If you are producing quality posts(including comments) you are going to get noticed at some point and rewarded. The instant rewards are a huge draw for people who have tried blogging unsuccessfully. Not to mention the value of this for people who don't have easy access to high paying work in their countries.
Overall I don't see anything getting in the way of success for steem, anyone can share their passion. I even got my dad on to start posting about these custom figurines he makes. He's the social media king, loves facebook, and I can see him doing very well in the future by just talking about what he loves.