Urdu community Contest / S2W1 – Steemit is different and better than other social media by @victoh78

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Steem engagement challenge season 2 week 1

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Hello everyone, how are we all doing I must say it's Truely been a while since the last engagement contest and I have been itching for a while.

Finally after waiting almost two weeks I get the chance to participate in the engagement contest and I must say I am really excited about this contest topic.

This is my first post in this community and I am super excited about it , I hope you all would like me and accept me as an active member in this community.

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Social media

like we all are aware social media has become a global phenomenon and almost every individual uses a social media in order to stay in touch with the happenings in our environment.

Irrespective of what ever location we find our selves we are sure to have one social media applications we use above the rest.

From the image above you can see that I have close to 8 social media applications which I use at one point or another but amongst all this social media platforms one stands out amongst the numberous and that is WhatsApp.

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The social media I use the most whatsapp

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Source

Whasapp is a social media applications which allows users to privilege of sending messages to Thier love ones and friends where ever they may be without service charge.

Unlike popular messaging which requires Individuals to pay when they want to send messages to other numbers, WhatsApp do not require users to pay rather it utilise the use of internet to deliver messages from one person to another.

By doing this WhatsApp has been able to greatly reduce the cost of communication between two or more people around the world

WhatsApp affords users the privilege of privacy what this means is that messages between uses on whatsapp are end to end encrypted hence no third party can view messages you send to another user.

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How has WhatsApp been beneficial to me

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Over the years of using whatsapp I have come to realise that I obtain the following benefits from using whatsapp.

Fast
The use of WhatsApp is very fast as it utilises the use of the internet hence using whatsapp I am able to send messages and receive messages very fast as against to the use of other messaging apps

Cheap

While using whatsapp I discovered that I am able to send messages for literally nothing as against to the use of messages.

With WhatsApp I can send messages to many people very cheap rather than paying the conventional 4naria I pay par 100 letter using text messages.

Number of users.

It's actually very easy for me to use WhatsApp for communicating with my friends this is because in my locality here in Nigeria majority of everyone here uses WhatsApp to communicate with one another.

Hence using whatsapp makes it alot easier for me to communicate with my friends and love ones

Video call
WhatsApp has this feature called video call which enables users to make calls and see the surrounding of those around them.

This feature of video call has helped me to communicate with my love ones who are very far away from me.

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Steemit is different from our conventional social media in the sense that using steemit users are afforded the privilege to make money while passing and receiving information.

By spending more time on steemit I am afforded the rare privilege of being able to make money as I do what I love.

Also by spending more time in steemit I am aclamating my self with the way the steemit system work, without spending anough time on steemit I wouldn't have been able to gain the wisdom and experience I have today

I have been able to have. A better understanding on how votes are disturbed and the correct hashtags to use.

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The advantages steemit has over other social media

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Endless stream of knowledge

Unlike normal social media which are narrowed minded and conservative steemit is quite different VA's it offers individuals the opportunity to write quality article.

This singular aspect of steemit makes indivduals go far and beyond to source for reasonable knowledge which they feel would be beneficial to those who would read them on the steemit Blogchain

Data consumption

Like many of us in Nigeria we often complain that popular social media like Instagram and Snapchat are responsible for finishing our data daily.

But on steemit we do not have this problem as steemit uses less data than your average social media application

No barriers

On steemit they literally no barriers restricting you from interacting with those who are in different parts of the world.

Unlike WhatsApp we would first need to source individuals numbers before we can now communicate with them but on steemit we are not faced with this challenge as we are free to interact with whomever we wish.

Rewards.

Unlike popular social media platforms steemit offers users the unique benefits of making money for sharing their thoughts and knowledge.

This put steemit above social media platforms such as WhatsApp, telegrams and others as this platform do not reward users.

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The disadvantage of steemit

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Markdowns

When I first started using steemit I struggled Alot using mark downs and it made it very difficult for me to get the rewards I felt I ought to have received.

This is a unique problem in which every steemians has experience at one point or another.

Often times mark downs are too complex to understand and users end up making mistakes that causes Thier works to look in appealing.

Keys
the issue of keys are a big concerns for many individuals as often times this keys are very difficult or should I say impossible for individuals to memorise hence they is always this fear that an individual might misplace his key and be left stranded.

Here is a case of an individual who has gotten locked out of his account due to the fact that he misplaed his keys.

Quality post.

Unlike other social media steemit has set a very high standard for what we determine as quality post hence many users are turned away as they are unable to meet this standards.

Normally on social media like Twitter we are not required to write long articles but on steemit we are always required to do so, as failure to do so would see us not getting rewarded.

Price instability

This is a unique problem which we as steemians face this is because the fact that steemit runs on a blockchain at any given point the price is changing hence we are users can never get an accurate estimate of our account worth.

To make it worse most times the market can play with our feelings and move in erratic patterns and this can make many of us to lose motivation for steemit

Take for example in the image above today being June 6th we saw price of steem sky rocket to .39 and all of a sudden there was a massive dump

Such moved like this have a tendency to play with the psychology of users.

I personally got affect by this move earlier today as it caused me to impulsively sale 29 steem due to the fact I really needed money.

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Conclusion

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With this I have come to the end of this contest post I am incredibly grateful for this community having given me the opportunity to share some of my thoughts.

I would like to invite @swaylee @ronindboss and @weasell