I shared one of my steemit post in Facebook and here's what happened
I shared this post on Facebook and it got quite a good response from my friends.
Here's a screenshot:
I even got one of them to join but she is not able to log in. :(
I shared this post on Facebook and it got quite a good response from my friends.
Here's a screenshot:
I even got one of them to join but she is not able to log in. :(
I share almost all of my articles on Facebook and Twitter (among direct shares with people I know would be interested). The usual response is "good article I agree/disagree" and then either nothing or a long response. I ask them to sign up here and discuss it with the rest of us and that response is a resounding "no" or "I would only sign up to comment on your stuff and I can do that here on Facebook/Twitter/direct message."
One of my staff members, I own a couple of websites and a PR firm, came over and joined us - @dashthebomber - but the others are simply not interested for whatever reason (some have cited signing up problems and others simply no interest at all in "another social networking site.").
You can lead a horse to water but not make it drink as they say.
It happens to me too. Whenever I ask someone to join I recieve a similar response. I still got a friend @iamsgr to join though. Today one more joined but cant login due to the sign-up problems that no one seems to be repairing!
That is going to be a serious problem in getting people to join up. We probably have one shot at that with most people. If they come and they cannot sign in/up then they probably will not come back.
Exactly. How would you expect someone to sign up a site he/she has never heard of, register but can't log in and still remember about it after a couple of days?
Or care. Or believe what people here are trying to tell them about how it works. If something as simple as signing up/in is broken then the common person hearing about @Steemit is going to think other things are not quite what they are made out to be.
Plus when I say crypto currency to non crypto folks they think of it as scam.
That scam response is partly because that is what is mostly shared and discussed in main stream media. Silk Road, Mount Gox failure, etc. People constantly point to those problems with crypto currencies (Bitcoin in particular). No one wants to discuss the people that made millions, the companies that have started thanks to funding using one crypto currency or another. No talk about the people that became financially free thanks to smart investing in crypto (like early adopters).
Crypto is treated quite differently than other "scams" like the lottery or casinos. You only hear about the winners from those things - nothing about the millions of people every year that either ruin their financial lives, or come close to it, chasing that jack pot.
Crypto is definitely treated differently.
Well yeah. People need to be more open minded I guess.
Exactly!!!!