Urdu community Contest / S2W1 – Steemit Vs other social media by @madilyn02

Just like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, steemit is also a social media platform. It serves almost the same purpose that these ones serve, connecting friends together in a fun way. What is really the definition of a social media?

Social media

According to Wikipedia, social media is an interactive and informative digital channel that allows users to share information,ideas, interest in various forms of virtual Communities. A social media platform connects people together and is super interactive.

Following the above definition, we can say that steemit is also a social media platform. It allows us to post, share our ideas and information,make new friends and connect with them etc.

Social media I use on a daily basis

I make use of several social medias, the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, the WhatsApp which is also a social media platform and most importantly I use steemit.

Most of them I use on a daily basis, and some of them I forget to visit them.
I would say there are some I never forget. For example I visit Whatsapp everyday since there the friends always sends me message and I can view their status to see current information about them. Yes Whatsapp is not a broad social media but it is still, it allows us to connect with us and also share information via status.

Using Whatsapp, beneficial or not?

I make use of Whatsapp everyday, most times to chat with others and also to share information with others in my status and as well read theirs.

Is using Whatsapp beneficial to me? I would say yes and no.
Whatsapp is beneficial to me in the sense that it affords me opportunity to talk with long distance friends and even make video and voice call with them. I can send a message across to anyone using this social media app.

I said not beneficial because I often share posts on my status and unlike in steemit, I don't get paid for posting there.

Posting to steemit enhances self growth and life improvement

Though we can not avoid other social media platforms, it is very much beneficial to spend time posting to steemit than in all other social medias.
Posting to steemit helps us to develop ourselves, reading other people's meaningful posts and tutorials will help us to learn everyday.

A unique addition about steemit is that it understands the value of contents. It believe that those who create good contents should get a reward for their contributions, this is something that no other social media is doing.

So it is very much beneficial to spend time on steemit than on other social medias since we know we will be earning as we are enjoying the fun part of it.

Steemit vs other social media platforms

As we know already, there is a sharp difference between steemit and other social media platforms. Facebook for example has several similarities with steemit.

Comparisons between Facebook and steemit

Facebook	Steemit
Allows us opportunity to share contents	We share contents in steemit bit in a more detailed way
There we can comment on other people's posts	Commenting is the most promoted in steemit. We comment on the posts of others even in a more detailed way
There is opportunity to share the posts of others	Same is done in steemit through a process called resteem.
You can Like 👍 the posts of others	In steemit that is called Upvote👍

Thise are a few similarities is Facebook and steemit. There are also differences between the two of them:

Difference between steemit and Facebook

Facebook	Steemit
Nothing is earned from making posts	You get rewarded for your quality contents
It is centralized	It is decentralized
Built on meta platforms	Built on blockchain
There is a room for private chat	Messages can be seen by everyone

Advantage and disadvantage of using steemit

I believe that anything with an advantage must also have a disadvantage. Below I'll talk about the advantages and the disadvantages of using steemit according to my own experience and observation

Advantages

• Unlike other social media platforms, we are rewarded for creating contents in steemit

• Steemit is built in blockchain which means that it is almost impossible for us to be hacked

• Steemit is decentralized and this means that we can choose not to be controlled by anyone. Building our Steempower can help us to be independent on anyone.

• Steemit gives us the opportunity to meet new friends from around the world and connect with them. We get to know about them by reading their posts especially their diarygames and we know they are real people.

• Steemit only accept good and quality contents. No plagiarized contents is allowed and this is unlike many other social media where users can just share post from wherever they got it from.

Disadvantages

I have found a few of what might be known as disadvantage in steemit

• There is no privacy:messages can be seen by everyone and it is open for all to see. Well, steemit is not a private chatting platform.

• It requires much concentration,so while doing it other things might suffer if we are not careful

Personal experience of using steemit

Yes, I have personally experienced those advantages and disadvantages I mentioned about steemit.

I am being rewarded for the contents I create in the community and I'm glad to be saying it here.
Through steemit I have been able to achieve a lot of things, I have made new friends, I'm learning a new language and I'm learning many other things from other users.

A specific example is that prior to joining steemit, I knew nothing about blogging but steemit has taught me a lot. I know that this new skill I have learnt will help me a lot as it is currently doing.

Those disadvantages I mentioned means nothing compared to the benefits I have gained from steemit.

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Thank you dear community for this opportunity to covey how we feel about the steemit platform.

I want to also invite my friends to tell us their views:
@swaylee
@ronindboss
@chukwu10

The link to the contest can be found below:

Steemit Enagement Challenge | Season2, Week #1 | Why and how Steemit social media is different and better than other social Media