Let me introduce myself. This is my FIRST MONTH EXPERIENCE on STEEMIT INITIAL IMPRESSIONS post.

Hello Steemians!
Though I would never imagine even a month ago me in my life starting any message with these two words, today I want to begin exactly with them! So once again:

Hello Stemians!
My name is John (Well, to put it straight from the beginning, this is not exactly the name I have in my passport, but it's Russian equivalent, which can be easily translated to English as John) Here on steemit everyone has this right for choosing any name and register for it. So I choose here to be known as John.. John Stone

According to that Stone part of my name. As you could already guess, again, this is not my real last name, but it is actually my occupation. I own a company which has been doing sandstone mining and additional stone crafting business for more than 10 last years. And if you could take smartphones of the last hundred clients of our company and would try to figure out how they entered my telephone number, you would have in 99 entries of 100 it translated to English as John Stone.
Because it is easy to put it in your phone in the way NAME + OCCUPATION, so you have better breadcrumbs for your memory if you have 1000+ of telephone numbers stored in your phone.
Compare it to an average user account having 1000+ followers, we need to somehow stay recognizable, that is why I just choose my account name @johnstone.

This is for now the end of that introducemyself part of this post as today is actually my 31st day on steemit project and I want to celebrate a bit this first month here by expressing my initial impressions of being part of this great community for this short period of time.

I must confess that I found steemit absolutely occasionally. It was exactly in the beginning of 2018 when I started browsing cryptocurrencies in search of some so called alt-coins which can possibly have high grow in 2018, I wanted to make a $100 one-year investment. So I took a list of the most popular alt-coins and began searching what stays behind them. Fortunately there was STEEM in that list.

When I first seen it, I loved it, yes, that was LOVE FROM THE FIRST SIGHT.
I was fascinated by the only idea of someone made this whole social-network being based on the blockchain technology so it produces its value by means of any social activities being made inside of this network. I registered the same day. Than waiting for approval, for some days, I've been reading and reading post by post of different authors keeping to admire how all those people came to be together in one place!

When I posted the first time and got a big for a man of the 25th level $1 upvote from @hr1 (This is something corresponding to the fact, that you will always remember the one who first upvoted you. lol) I was as happy as a child who waited for 2 weeks when vacation finally came.. So, I posted the second time in one hour and.. BINGO! got another $1 upvote from @hr1. This is how it all began.

I must admit that I have never been doing blogging in my life until I entered STEEMIT community. But the strange thing, is that from the first day here I feel an overwhelming desire to express myself.

So, as a short manifest of my super-excited-ego just to slightly calm it down I will put these four lines below:

My English is Simple,
My Stones are Strong,
The Words sound Distinctive,
And so on, so on...

Very soon I recognized that it is not only about expressing oneself, but also, and now it seems even the best part, interacting with others! I met so many interesting people here already that I want to start "My interesting friends series" to keep them on my pages always in my mind, because it is really very difficult to remember even 50 nicknames of your buddies among even 100 followers, not saying even of bigger amounts.

This place is full of gratefulness, that is why I keep following everyone who follows me. I know this is not right according to the unsaid rules, but how can I not follow somebody who took interest to my person! (even if it took him 2 seconds to click that follow button)
Than, after a while, I come to the pages of my followers and read their posts and leave comments and upvote selectively. And if I see no reaction for one week, than I go unfollow this person. As I think this is the best place to show your reaction, and if someone for some reasons (very often it seems to be a language factor) do not give that reaction, than we are probably have different views on it.

What I liked most of all on steemit is TRANSPARENCY! You can come examine anyone's page without being approved for friends or something in that kind. You can come and see the last comments or the last transactions of some person. This is really helpful, when someone replies to you and you want to see the person's background, check may be, if he is not a spammer or just know someone better before you answer. This transparency thing is something, which to my personal opinion, will eventually defeat corruption. In this case there is no need to be a prophet to predict some future social experiments (in a good meaning of this phrase) based on steemit blockchain.

I feel it, we are building the next level transparent intellectual society here, where national or religious boundaries have already been erased and the wind of change is blowing from the very heart of it.

Keep Steeming!

See you Soon!
@johnstone
John Stone