RE: Why Steemit Probably Won't Replace Facebook
Couldn't agree more. First of all, every beginning is hard as fuck(had no blogging experience at all), still remember all my struggles at first 5-10 posts, how do they need to look?! let me check that one, blah-blah. But the learning curve was steep, as it requires just a bit effort, time and practice. After my first earn, I suggested to lots of my friends to come to steem, with THE PROOF! Well... 2 of them made account - one never posted anything, the other is not active anymore (hopefully he will come back).
I think what our Joe is doing when he comes to steemit - he is not seaching for community but for easy profit. Ok, we all reap the benefits and do our best for the biggest reward we can get, but as we all know from countless hours lost in the chat (our precious chat), community and good times makes this platform cool, and also opens you for new horizons, and various cultures.
But lets see, I still use facebook, but they are just trying too much - and almost every innovation is step backward for a long time now.
The more the merrier, lets steem this plane up! :)
I'm totally here to make money. I haven't let that affect my content yet though. The times when I wrote about crypto, it was because I wanted to. If I wanted to make more, I would be making more science posts. Instead I'm posting a science fiction story that's only making a few dollars per post.
I don't think that being here for money is actually the problem. It's when someone wants to make money, but doesn't have the dedication to research how to succeed here, or ignores the social aspects.
Of course, I wasn't in chat to make money. Although it did have the side effect of getting me a few social connections. It was mainly just to hang out. It provided somewhere to interact with people live about Steem/Steemit, and crypto. It also kept me from going 100% into work mode, which I now realize was a really good thing, even if sometimes I could have gotten more done.
Well I came here for the money, and will stay for the money, but also why I work and give myself into steemit, why not use benefit of some human interaction in the process.
Exactly! Ask around, search, interact.
But lets be honest, if you put money in anything there will always be greedy people around it doing nothing right to get some piece of it. :)
I thought I sent this before :)
cheers!
And don't forget scammers and con artists.