RE: Top 10 Reasons to Buy and Hold Steem!
Great post - inspirational and high on optimism!
As of now Steemit, the force behind Steem, is more of a diversion from other social platforms like Facebook due to its paying capacity. Unfortunately, it has been clubbed into the make-money-online category of sites rather than be looked upon as a social network in the likes of Facebook and others. While Pinterest has its USP as being able to pin images, Instagram has a USP of sharing snaps on the go, Steemit is only known well for paying for posts.
Is it not enough? I think not because then as I said it attracts the make-money-online segment and also some of the worst of the internet - like spammers, scamsters and desperate folks ready to do anything to make a few cents. You can see it happening if you browse through the feeds...
For the Steem price to go up to $1o a lot more needs to happen including the whetting of higher quality content to grace the front-facing feeds, action against spammers and recognition of good authors. Remember, it is supposed to be a CONTENT platform, not just a place for image-only or a few-lines-of-text content.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help that the majority of online reviews do not highlight the virtues of Steemit and the various advantages that seem to be mentioned only inside this platform. Mainstream bloggers seem to be avoiding Steemit, and bloggers on Steemit do not have enough of their own presence to promote Steemit on the web.
Having said that Steemit is much better off than where Facebook was when it was 2 years old! I am sure that things will improve and get even better very soon - thanks to the efforts of contributing community members.
Looking forward to better times on Steemit!
Exactly!
We have a lot of work to do here and are very much in the early adopter phase which is where the most investment potential is! I think the majority of serious bloggers are completely unaware of Steem because even Bitcoin is barely getting out there in the more general population still. Give it another year or two and a lot of big time bloggers will have at least heard of Steem if not joined!
I like that all content is acceptable - content isn't just visual. It can legitimately be a few lines of text. Why not? You can pick and choose who you follow. That's how I landed here :-) I filter what I want to view. I don't waste my time with content that doesn't interest me. One person's trash is another person's treasure.