analogy.... hmmm...

Let's try this one:

If we were to compare a cryptocurrency-based social media platform with facebook. we'd get this:

Facebook is like a giant one-way mirror that looks like a noticeboard with separators. Everyone has their little square of content that they, and those closest to them, can see, and they can seemingly deploy their separators as they choose, to make some information difficult if not impossible to see if you're not in their inner circles.

They're all under the impression that only those close to them, and those passing by, can see what they post on what THEY think it just a gigantic noticeboard.

But, unknown to them, Mark Zuckerberg and his employees are dashing back and forth on the other side of the mirror, where there are NO separators, noting down that you like this and that kind of music, and then selling that information to the highest bidder, or just keeping it in their own little notebooks, so that even if you remove that information from your board, it'll still be there, even if you don't know it.

On Steemit, or another cryptocurrency based system, everyone knows that it's a mirror.

And now, instead of the noticeboard-mirror serving to pay those on the other side, you all collectively go around to the other side of the mirror at the end of each day, looking at everything that's been put up, and decide to allocate the profits of the platform amongst yourselves according to how much you like it, who's rubbed who's back, and who's been yelling the loudest (ya got to be honest in these analogies ;) )

And this time, since you're all on the other side of the mirror/noticeboard once a day, you all know the information is shared with everyone, and you can see if anyone has backed up your information somewhere.

Hmmm... I think the analogy started off interesting, but lost steem (get it) once I got to actually trying to explain a crypto-based system with it :/