New to Steemit

Honestly when my dad told me about Steemit, he kept mentioning steam the gaming store/platform for PC gaming and kept trying to say that they were both the same. Then he told me it was like of like a Reddit with a coin attached to it. From there I seemed a bit interested in the idea of getting paid for your ideas/posts/news. I guess I just to create some type of posts that I can give people information about. I'm not really sure how to end this but I'm glad by dad showed me this site.

Also, if someone can explain steemit a little to me so I don't get the wrong idea of it.