So my first week on steemit passed, and here are my thoughts about steem.
1. It's good
Steemit is just good. I've never had any social media before like Twitter or Facebook, I only uploaded some videos to Youtube. So steemit is my first social network like account and I'm pretty happy with it.
2. The community
The community is really nice and supportive. So far I haven't seen any negative comments or posts. Everybody says "Thank You" asks a question or suggests something in the comments.
3. Tags
For my type of content there are 2 main tags i post in: technology and programming, I'm planning to do utopian-io in the near future too. I found it a bit hard to discover my content, if you look at new the top post says 1 second ago always. But it's not a problem, other social networks have no new section at all.
4. Don't do it for the money
When I joined I saw popular people showing how they get $100> per post. I was like, yeah I can post good content frequently, even if i earn a part of $100 I will have a lot of money. Well that's not quite how it works. I get $0.02 per post counting my upvote too. I searched for the secret on how they earned $13 on their worst post in the month. I found 2 possible solutions to this.
- Everyone said: be persistent, and look at money as a bonus to your posts. I can totally agree with this, and this is my mentality now.
- Another one which no one said, but I thought about it: They buy steem power and promotion to build a following base and then the money comes from the upvotes. This is a good way too, but it can lead to less quality content, and where's the fun in paying in money? Maybe the real reason I'm against this, is that I have no money
So I use steem as a social media where I post stuff and get to connect with people (because I'm very anti social in real life), share opinions and just have fun researching and putting out content. And looking at money as a bonues not as a goal for the posts.
Summary
Anyways I just wanted to put this out for somebody deciding to join the community. These type of posts helped me a lot when I was about to join. For anyone not in the community I can only say. Create an account, test it out for yourself, and after a bit of time ditch Facebook and Twitter and other social media, because not only steemit gives you bonus money, good content, free blogging, but also it has much better privacy than those social networks. Thank you for reading through this wierd post. PS: check out steemitboard, it has cool achievements for upvotes, posts, and comments.