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RE: 1 MINUTE TO EXPLAIN STEEM - How can we improve education for new users?
I'm in Taiwan. And I've tried again and again to get my Taiwanese friends into steem and they just can't get their heads around free money. No matter what I say, they still think it's some kind of currency that can only be used inside the platform. I've showed them the posts with hundreds of dollars at the bottom and I've told them, "That's real money folks!" but they still continue to fixate on FB or any given social media site that makes money off of them.
Well i'd never tell my friends it's "Free Money" because I don't think it's free money either. In fact it costs a lot more time and effort than my normal job.
Get rich quick things are not attractive to most people.
I hear ya. But my Taiwanese friends (read EFL students) are happy to put their time into useless ventures such as FB. It's just going to take time, month and months, moreover, years, and they will be the latecomers thinking they have discovered something new when they, do indeed, get into steemit.