RE: Heeeelp!!! I don't know which is scarier: trying to enter the crypto world or the thought of missing the train. Eeek!
Hello and welcome to steemit, first things first, i found your post via @honeysim featuring you in their "Pay it Forward" contest entry. Crypto and money issue things there is a ton of help available on that but, not something I really know about.
The social aspects, people on steemit seem to be pretty friendly for the most part, watch out for the whale wars and try not to get sucked in to them. Their are a lot of groups/communities forming on steemit, pretty much one for everyone. I myself tend to stay around just a few of them. If you like to meet and chat at and find good quality post and such, then #newbieresteemday is a very good place to look. After almost 9 months on steemit, it seems as if most of the real good, and the quality post is coming from the newer users. As you have already experienced with the "Trending" tab of steemit. The well off whales and larger accounts do not really have a lot of good content, there are exceptions, but I have found the new user content to be of higher quality. So a search through the #newbieresteemday tag will generally turn up some pretty good content.
Okay, that takes care of one aspect, If you enjoy challenges and games, and meeting good, kind and personable people, you may want to look into @IFC, (this is also something you may want to mention to your daughter), IFC stands for Information Finding Championship. Season 1 is coming to a close soon, but the people are all very nice that are involved with it. We even have spectators to our challenges in our Discord chat room.
If you are a person that likes to shop for those special one of a kind type things, in the IFC Discord Chatroom, we have a side room, (actually about 15), for vendors to sell things or for shoppers to look for things or make request of vendors. (part of the @IFC spectators). The Marketplace was born because of a desire for some of the IFC watchers to help out and because well we are a very fun group of social people. @IFC and the Marketplace were all spawned from the brain of @apolymask, and his page is still one of the primary for finding out about the IFC next season it will all mostly be carried over on the @IFC channel.
Well that is about it for now, I tend to get long winded sometimes. For crypto info, you will have no problem finding help. For good content, the Newbieresteemday group are good hunters, and for nice people interaction @IFC is hard to beat.
Thanks for this very informative comment. There is so much out there that sounds interesting but it's hard to tell on first glance what is quality information and what is not (don't we all hate to waste our time). So it's extremely helpful to be directed to some of the good stuff. It's great to see how many steemians really want to help the newbies. Thanks so much for your suggestions, I'll definitely check them out :)
Yep quality is a very individual thing. In one of the discord rooms I look into every now and then there are a few foreign language posters that I take a look at and use the browser translate function, some time it works real well, sometime, you can get funny looking sentences, and sometimes it just doesn't work at all.
But Quality really is in the eye of the beholder, kind of like beauty. Some people really really hat fiction, and think that fiction authors are all over voted and rewarded, some people hate Cryptanalysis and think they are overrated and paid, but for all the dislikers there are more that vote for the content than those that down vote the content.
There are groups of people that do want to help new users out, I mean who is going to make us something new to read, who is going to read what we put out, it is the new users, they are key to keeping steemit growing and improving, and a positive environment is a happy environment.