Hello Steemit! My name is Russ, I'm 27 and I live in New York City. A friend told me about this site and from their description it seemed very interesting. I've not seen a place like this yet on the internet. Its a little bit Reddit, and little bit Face Book, with a little Bit Coin sprinkled on top. So far I'm pretty excited about what I've seen. There are a lot of posts floating around here about anarchy, big business conspiracies, secret societies ruling the world, and the like. I'm not here to talk about anything like that. Aristotle said :

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a though without accepting it. 

Based on this I enjoy the banter (or rhetoric). Whether I believe in these theories or not is irreverent. I'll admit what first peaked my interest when I heard about this site was the possibility of making money by sitting in front of the computer. However, now what I appreciate most is that this has the potential to be the new agora. This is a place for people to go and talk about anything. Without fear of violating some obtuse TOS, or having the rights of all your content stripped away. Where people can post about their beliefs, their problems, or even just a picture of their cat. 

So before I begin to ramble on too incoherently I would just like to thank the community for being what they are and I hope to be a valuable new part of it. 

#newhere #introducemyself #community