A 13-Year-Old British Student Blogs on Steem and Promotes Steem in Real Life. The Wrong Stories Are Hitting Trending!
As I was browsing my feed this morning, and clicking through resteems "Wikipedia You Know Where You Begin but Not Where The Rabbit Hole Takes You Style™️", my mind was wandering until after some minutes I stumbled upon the @steemblogs account.
So far so good. Nothing that special at first sight, especially considering reputation 50.
Until I saw the bio of the @steemblogs account.
A 13 year old school boy interested in gaming, blockchain and how Steemit will change the way we view social media entirely.
Again, nothing special and as the Steem ecosystem continues to grow we will undoubtedly see many more adolescents join Steem, not in the least because of the opportunity to make some pocket money. Possibly via blogging or streaming their gaming sessions on @DLive.
But the line about steemit caught my attention and I started scrolling through the blog's feed and found the following gems:
- My Steem Ambassador Application
- Another Great Day Out, Delivering Steemit Leaflets
- A Car-Boot Raising Money for the Homeless and Promoting Steemit
Let those post titles sink in for a second.
That's right, a 13-year-old adolescent is actively promoting Steem(it) in real life, leafletting and promoting Steemit at car-boot sales. How many of us make the effort even trying to get more than 10 friends to sign up to Steem?
@steemblogs Matthew leafletting with more Steemians in Wolverhampton, UK - Photo © @steemblogs
Yet, a 13-year-old student is stealing a run on most of us. Putting in more work for #promo-steem than many active Steemians, many of which are too busy improving their Steem earnings and fishing for each possible upvote bot vote or fishing after whale upvotes, covertly or blatantly admitting such.
Why does Matthew, the author of @steemblogs, Steem?
Before steemit, I had a lot of confidence issues and generally thought bad about myself. I also had trouble believing in myself. Now, since being introduced to steemit, I feel like I have more confidence because people seem to like what I blog about and give me good feedback.
Source: What Steemit Means to Me
With all the constantly ongoing hoopla about the Steemit trending page, and the quality of posts on Trending - much of it becoming trending thanks to significant expenses on bidding bot upvotes, the question is why do stories like this not hit the trending page?
These are the stories which should be on trending. Or the accounts of 60+ year old Steemians who make their first cryptocurrency transaction with their Steem earnings.
@steemblogs Matthew showing leaflets he distributes in his neighborhood - Photo © @steemblogs
Everyone knows the value of Bitcoin, Steem, and SBD. Every Poloniex user received the same email that Poloniex was acquired. We all know all that, there's no reason why articles like that should be on trending.
Steem success stories, Steem promotional activities performed by both students and the elder generations though... those are the stories which should be on trending being both celebrated and rewarded to the hilt by the Steem community.
Also, why does Steem Inc. not have Community Managers highlighting these accounts, and efforts made by Steemians? Or promote these exemplary Steemians via its social media properties? @ned, @andrarchy?
Everybody please head over to @steemblogs, and give Matthew a follow, an upvote, and promote the exemplary efforts he puts in for the Steem community!
Candidate for @humansofsteemit, @ashleykalila?
Thank you for taking the time to make this blog. I have just come home from school and my mum told me to log on to steemit. When I saw your blog, I felt honoured. This gives me more determination to keep blogging and makes me extremely proud to be part of this community - along with people like you.
Thank you so much for this.
Matthew
Keep up the awesome work, Matthew.
Actions like yours speak louder than any words and (social) engagement the way you showcase is the future.
The world, and Steem, needs more adolescents like you.
You are a true inspiration.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this post. I am nearly in tears. Why? because this is my son!!! I could not be more proud of him. He is so passionate about Steemit and the future of social media. He is also passionate about helping others. Since starting his fund raising, just over 2 years ago, he has raised in excess of £3,500. He is not interested in making money from Steemit but just keeps checking to see how many 'up votes' he gets. He is our FUTURE. Thank you once again for taking time to do this. I will make sure Matthew reads this and follows you too. x
You have many reasons to be proud of Matthew, @yvonneyoung. What he does is amazing and an inspiration to all. Congrats on having raised an awesome and socially engaged son.
Awesome find! Hats off to this young man setting such a great example. I'll go and follow this little dude and support him in any way I can. Let me see which post of his I can Tweet via @PlanetSteem.
Thanks for your comment and the support for Matthew, @therneau!
Off course. It's only a pleasure. Young men like these are the future we want in the community :) Thank you for bringing it under my attention!
A thank you from my heart. I totally agree with you. Resteeming your post and his and when many do that, hopefully, it will get the attention it deserves.
steemit is doing so much good especially through projects such as @stach @air-clinic and so on. However the whale wars and posts which get heavy duty upvotes hit the trending page.
excellent idea, the steem managers
There indeed is lots of awesome happening on steem and a community manager or team could highlight so many awesome stories, and Steem success stories.
Thanks for your comment, @sayee.
I agree with you 10000% my friend. I actually stopped looking at trending stories because not all posts there deserve to be there. They are there because like in anything in this worlds works? It is simple. Money talks.
Yes, Matthew should definitely be up there on trending pages for his efforts to promote Steemit community. But, it is not and maybe we call to change that a bit or at least encourage him to keep doing it. And, yes Steemit creators should look into these problems. As trending pages represent Steemit.
Maybe in the future, there will be improvements on this part. :)
Following Mathew and giving him my small upvote.
Don’t we all know it, @awakentolife. Money talks and Steem is surely no exception to that.
But making a mother happy just because one took some time to highlight the awesome and inspirational work of her son is priceless. ;)
Yes, it is and it should be appreciated no doubt. Hopefully, in future, we will see these kinds of posts on trending pages more often. :)
Seems like the missionary work can be done on foot. I needa step my game up.
He’s an inspiration, isn’t he. Thanks for your comment, @thatkidsblack!
Thanks for the post, and good on him! Great to see Steem being promoted this way and hopefully it will continue to help many lives and in many ways! :)
Good post. These type of stories need to be highlighted by SteemIt and SteemIt community managers.
Steemit definitely needs a community manager (team). There’s too much awesomeness which should be highlighted by the platform. Thanks for backing that up, @steemitqa.
Woow, this is cool . We need support from everyone for this awesome steemit community xx
This IS awesome! And should be what gets attention here on Steemit. Thanks for taking the time and effort to do so.