Steemit - The Oxymoron Social Media site

Having stumbled across my blog, you may have asked yourself how did an anti-social media, non-millennial contrarian end up on a social media site? Well, I am presupposing that's the question my friend/(s) and family will be asking themselves were they to come across this blog.

Why Steemit?

So, why Steemit and not the countless other social media sites that I have chosen to pass on over the years? There are multiple answers to this question which you'll be glad to hear I won't bore you with. Instead, I will share with you the two main reasons.

Number one reason by far for me is that Steemit respects my privacy. I am a private person and instinctively recoils at anyone / site asking for my full name, date of birthday, marital status etc. These are private facts which I will only share where I am legally obliged to do so. Those unfortunately close enough to personally know me will off-course get to know these facts, but even then it could take a significant amount of time as the relationship matures.

Not exactly sure where this instinct comes from, but maybe it was brainwashed into me watching and reading animal farm, 1984 and remembering getting permission to stay up late to watch the fall of the Berlin wall. Where ever it originates, I am flabbergasted by the detailed personal information people are willingly entering into databases without pondering what use their details will be put to.

The second reason for using Steemit is that it's an easy platform for me to share my opinions whilst meeting the above precondition. Like most people, I am quite opinionated and will not sit on the fence for issues I am passionate about - unless legally obliged to do so. So stumbling across Steemit at a time when I was searching for a hobby is a fortunate coincidence. Especially as I was able to write my first post by just randomly hitting some keys on my keyboard. Someone had kindly taken the trouble to set it all up to go for me, no technical wizardry for me to get my head round.

It will be disingenuous of me to end this post without mentioning the money aspect of Steemit.

I am fortunate to have a very well paid job that I enjoy, so no chance of Steemit being my first, second, third etc source of income or even extra pocket money. The money aspect I was considering before signing up was whether or not this was a Ponzi scheme. I don't understand the financial infrastructure that underpins the site but reached the conclusion that it was not a Ponzi scheme when I was not asked to make a payment, promised a guaranteed return by partaking or requested to sign up others. These are my three red flags that scream out Ponzi scheme and avoid, as Steemit has not triggered any of them I am satisfied that however it works it's not a Ponzi scheme.

Normal service will be resumed in my next blog posting as I will be sharing my fantasy football team with you.