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RE: Four Years of Fun: The High School Memories I've Made Through Music and Steem
For an example of one of my friends who did join, check out @astronomyizfun. Sadly, our school network blocks Steem from our school computers (even at home). His only computer is his school computer so he hasn't been able to access Steem for the last year.
That is a shame about the blocking of Steem.
Do you think their is potential to get more school students on Steem?
That is a tricky question. Do I think that school students would benefit from , and enjoy Steem? Yes. But the challenge is to get them to take the time it takes to sign up and learn about it.
My father and I talked about this, and we think there are four obstacles: Days of waiting for account completion, confusion about the need for keys and the long master password, widespread suspicion of cryptocurrency, and absence of trendiness.
I have advertised Steem for 4 years in any and every way to anyone and everyone who would hear me (everyone in my school has heard about it at some point), and yet only a small number of people from my school joined, only a few posted at all, and only 1 actually stuck around for more than a few weeks.
For recruiting from schools, my father thinks that there's something to be learned from the way Facebook began its roll-out in the early 2000s by focusing on and saturating one college at a time, and I think that it's important to reward posts that don't require long attention spans but still demonstrate quality.
Thanks for this feedback.
We are certainly working on making the signup procedure quicker and easier, and for making the whole onboarding process smoother.
Very interesting idea about the original Facebook roll-out method. I wonder how we could use that sort of approach with Steem...?
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This is not my forté, but for whatever it's worth, here's some brainstorming:
Don't know how useful any of this is, but that's what came to mind for me.
Thank you for this. Some excellent ideas here.
I will bring this into our 'ideas folder' to see how it could be picked up in our future planning.
Here is a discussion post I just made for this topic:
https://steemit.com/steem/@cmp2020/discussion-post-where-do-we-take-steem-from-here-a-post-for-steem-community-discussion