For Facebook Swipe Left, For Steem Swipe RIGHT

It's been a long time since I haven't posted a freewrite article in here and I felt a bit inspired today to do that. After all I didn't get to blog that much lately and I kind of missed it. I haven't gone back to Facebook either but simply didn't had the inspiration anymore to be that active... Since Steem is not doing that well in charts, not that the other cryptos are, and since Facebook has announced their own crypto for the future, to be used especially by whatsapp, which is owned by the blue giant I thought that I should write about both platforms a bit and why I choose one over the other and my friends not.

I have to say that I have been writing before about the topic and others have also, such as @erikah and @dragosroua, but the topic seems to renew itself and the most discussed idea is why people are not trading Facebook for Steemit and why are they not celebrating Christmas on Steemit instead of Facebook. Opinions are many and mine is one of them. Actually, yesterday evening I was talking with a friend of mine who came from Belgium for the Holidays and remembered that I told her multiple times about a website like a social media platform that I am using and recommended her also, but she didn't tried it yet...

She was still scrolling through a Facebook feed and still answering Facebook messenger from time to time and I get why. I get why people don't break the doors of Steemit instead of burning their eyes with the blue pill. It's because there are two completely different worlds. Yes, Steemit and Facebook, in my opinion are two completely different worlds and I couldn't even compare them now that I am thinking more about the topic. Just like apples and carrots. Both vegetables, but not similar.

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Facebook is the world of groups, the world of meals shared everyday with your friends and family pics shared with exact location also so that everybody knows where you are. Facebook is the world where everybody is happy and you get tons of shares everyday from your friends with wisdom quotes and all sort of insights that supposedly should make your day better. Facebook is that fake world where you go to take your "daily dopamine hit" in the form of likes and shares and comments from your favorites, the app that you can't live without even on the peaks of the mountains. Facebook is absolutely everything that Steemit isn't. Period.

Steem, Steemit, or however you wish to call it is a blockchain based platform. A platform for the crypto enthusiasts mostly, for the geeks, for the bloggers, for people that want to get out of the Matrix and have chosen the right pill. It's the app where you don't have as friends/followers all of your neighbors, uncles and high school friends, but you have people all over the world reading your posts and interacting with you honestly...in my opinion and way different than what you get on Facebook, without the sugary social media things. Steem/Steemit is everything that Facebook isn't and for me it's real when comparing it with Facebook. The least amount of fake that I have seen on any social media platform is on Steem and that's one of the main reasons I am still here. PLUS...in here you can convert your likes into fiat and buy yourself an ice cream which you can't actually do with your blue likes.

Bottom line that's why I swiped RIGHT and I don't even want to look left and burn my eyes again with that blue pill. I am perfectly aware that Steem will probably never be as big as Facebook is and I don't even want that. I don't want to be part of a virtual world like Facebook is and to be among billions of Facebook type users. Steem is enough for me as it is and it seems updating pretty well over time. If my parents or friends will never join Steem and prefer wasting their time on Facebook let them do that. I am fine with what I have and I don't want to beat the drum too much in convincing them to swipe RIGHT.

Thanks for your attention and have a great day!