STEEMIT? Now Let's explore this social network

Steemit - is a new social media, where people can earn Steem by posting valuable content. This has been the attention of many users and registered to participate in the past few months. Steemit users and their authors believe that the development of this application is a revolutionary element that transforms the whole of social media.

What if you got paid to post on Facebook?

What if you could make money by up voting other peoples’ posts on Reddit?

You imagine a social media site that rewards people and not greedy shareholders.

This short guide will explain how you can join steemit.com for free and start earning money right away. But first, we need to explain what’s Steemit and how it can afford to pay people like us just for posting blogs, voting, and having fun.

Steemit is much more than a money-making opportunity. It is a decentralized social media site, like Facebook or Reddit, but without a big company at the top that sucks out profits. Steemit uses a new model for social media, relying on people instead of advertising. Users post content and help to curate it by up voting the best content to everyone else’s attention. That puts it beyond the control of greedy corporations, large media conglomerates, and repressive governments. It is the first social media site that’s truly free of these controls.
The content is free and the money goes to the people who post and vote on it.

Steemit runs on the blockchain, the same technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The blockchain allows information and transactions to be verified quickly, securely, and automatically. Because the site can pay you automatically, there is no need for a big corporate infrastructure, and there is no corporation to run away with your profits. You are paid in STEEM dollars, a price stable token that is always worth about $1 and can be converted to Bitcoin or regular money. You are also rewarded with greater voting power and a stake in Steemit’s growth each time you post and vote on good content.

Who are we, the co-authors of this book?
We are four members of the Steemit community who want to share it with the world. In our first month on Steemit, each of us earned several thousand dollars for posting content that became popular with the Steemit community. We earned more money by voting on and replying to other peoples’ posts. We’d like to be your guides for the next few pages as you learn about this site. And we’re pretty sure we know how to have fun on Steemit also!

Maybe you want to drop the book at this point and just head over to Steemit. You are welcome to do so, but we encourage you to invest a little time and energy to understand it first. We promise to teach you some secrets that will save you time, cut down on your learning curve, and help you succeed right away on Steemit.

The Trouble with Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Other Social Media.
To fully understand Steemit, let us start with one of the problems it was created to address. Wall Street values Facebook at more than $350 billion. Facebook has great technology, it has built a successful business, and it has established itself as the face of social media. But most of Facebook’s valuation comes from its users: one billion of them around the world.

Why are Facebook’s users worth so much? A company with access to one billion people is a huge market for advertisers. Companies want to reach Facebook’s users to sell them products and services.

When big companies come calling, Facebook and other social media sites are only too happy to sell them data they have gathered on their own users. They gladly sell advertising to these companies. Advertising is content that someone has paid to put in front of you. And Facebook is happy to let big corporations dictate the content that Facebook’s users see first.

Why would Facebook and other social media sites sell out their users this way? Even if the Facebook of the world began as tiny, innocent startups with good intentions, they now are owned by mega-banks, corporations and rich individuals. These owners and shareholders demand constant growth and increased profits; truth and privacy are lower priorities.

In their world, people are money. Users are a commodity to be mined for information, so that these same companies or their clients can turn around and target the site’s users with the right kind of advertising. Then they can sell lots of products and services, and make more money off the site’s users. When you post on most social media sites, you are fueling a vicious cycle, and you certainly do not get paid for posting or voting like you do on Steemit.