finally I am here with the introduction that I’ve been preparing for days. I know, you heard me right. I am not good at writing, even more so in English – as it is my second language. I always tell myself that this is my weakness and it’s hard to improve. I used to accept that and didn’t try my best, but with the commitment of joining this platform, I hope I can fix it or at least try to make it better.

My name is Dora Nguyen and I’m from Vietnam. My friend @trangbaby introduced me to this community a couple of days ago. I've been reluctant to sign up as there is not a lot of info about it online, and to be honest it is not easy to understand how this works. It is confusing when my friend kept telling me how awesome this steemit community is, then she sent me article links from steemit. Based on what I know, or what I thought I know, it sounds not right. A social network based on blockchain and also cryptocurrency. I don’t know anything about it.

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However, part of me like the idea of a social network that allows you to own your content, it’s uncensored, no one can plagiarize your content and you get paid for socialising. It speaks to me as I don’t like what the giant tech companies are doing.

So I decided to find out more online from reviews or users’ feedback. I usually trust more third-party reviews about products and services. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything like that online. My gut told me it’s not that easy; it’s too good to be true. Socialising and earning money? good luck with that.

Until one day I realised it has been always like that – when I face something news that I know nothing about - I spend too much time weighing in pros and cons. Then I would find enough reasons or evidence to prove that it’s best not to do it. However, I am tired of this cycle; I want to change it. I am curious about something but afraid to step out of my comfort zone at the same time. Instead of running away & still spending a lot of time thinking about it, why not try it and consider it as learning something new?

I know if it’s too hard to understand this platform, there might be reasons behind it. I didn’t spend enough time & commit myself to investigate it. So I started to dive a bit deeper into the guides & resources for newbie users, which helped me a lot. I grew my understanding of what STEEMIT is and how it works.

So, here I am. I know there are a lot of things I need to learn. But the first step is done and I hope I’ve nailed it. Oh, actually it is not. I suppose to tell you a bit more about myself, what I want to do here and how I will contribute to the community.

1. Who am I?