Almost one month in!! Why I love Steemit!

So I am almost one month and and as I see people are introducing themselves with the I am new photo of name and date joined. When I made introduction originally I had never viewed a post, was barely sure what was acceptable, and was just kind of throwing myself out there with no idea what a Steemit was.

Now that I have been on here for almost a month, have made some posts, and have gained over 50 followers (I know its not huge numbers but to me a follower means a fair amount) I now have a much better idea of how to introduce myself. I am a full time EMT as a work thingy (jobs I believe they're called), military veteran (iraq), a gamer (just look at my posts), and a new father (6 weeks old!).
I am also a writer. I have been looking at options towards what to post and where and how do really do it, and it looks like no matter where I post I will probably unveil first on steemit. Lately I have been building the skeletons and background of the worlds I will be writing in so hopefully I should have some work to post at a relatively not far off date.

Why Steemit is becoming my go-to.
So while I am riding the ambulance between calls and my reports get done I frequently whip out the phone so that I can amuse myself in some way, catch a flick of news, whatever. For the first few weeks on steemit I was still reflexively opening up facebook and seeing 70 people all share the same picture or video over the last weekend and people screaming at each other in caps over politics or whatever. I don't mind opposing views, I mind the social media nerd-raging over opposing views. I was a member of the US military overseas in Iraq. Everyone I worked with was from every following of life, and in the Army there is only two types of people. Shitbags and soldiers. If you are one you tend to avoid the other. But that's the only discrimination that I saw overseas. I enjoyed the company of the Iraqi people, not a fan of their police but I do like their army, good soldiers. I mention that when I mention facebook because the only reason I keep facebook is so I don't lose contact with anyone I was deployed with. Outside of that I could replace facebook by googling meme's under "recent" and I wouldn't miss it.

What I like about steemit is that I am finding myself opening chrome or the esteem app so that I actually check this. As opposed to my friends on facebook I actually like hearing and reading what people on here say. If I hate what someone says I can simply stop following them without some kind of a fallout in real life because they work with me. On Steemit I enjoy the fact that most of you (except my 2 friends I know are on here) are strangers to me. So I guess I value the opinions of strangers over the asshats that have friended me one facebook over the years. Actually yeah, that's basically what I'm saying.

And I love it. I haven't started following too many people yet, although I will be soon. I am trying to keep my posting active as well as my comments, and I am juggling a 6 week old, 2 jobs, 2 dogs, writing and more into one plate. I am starting to get better at it, and I will try to be a better Steemian.

So this is me re-introducing myself, with the official style photo, and why I love this place. I hope you enjoyed the read, feel free to comment so I can check out your profile to follow you. Thanks for reading!