MY STEEMIT EXPERIENCE - YOU GOTTA LAUGH TO CRY

I laugh every time I look back on my first few days as a newbie! I laugh because it is better to laugh than to cry! How I stood on my head without even knowing I was standing on my head! How much foolery of myself I must have made in the thought that I was making fast money!

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Let me tell you something, fellow Steemians: it is good to know the extent of your ignorance and therefore embrace Steemit education so you can eliminate your ignorance of how things work on this platform. Spend your first few days reading FAQs, reading posts generally, understanding how the Steemit platform works, how to navigate through, the rules governing posting, upvoting, commenting and resteeming. You see, although the ignorant may know nothing in his innocence, the half-baked educated man is actually dangerous. To join an organisation to make money without understanding the methods and strategies is to rush to perdition. Unknown to myself, I was a danger to myself. What a double tragedy! Little wonder it is said that if you think education is expensive and a waste of time, try ignorance.

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I'm sure you'll brand me crazy or mad if I share with you one crazy thought that wafted through my mind as I planned to make so much quick money from Steemit: I placed a call to the village, asking an unemployed cousin to prepare to relocate to Lagos. I had found him a job. Knowing he wasn't computer literate he asked the nature of the job and I said he shouldn't worry as I had it all worked out. All he needed was to just come.

My plan was to buy a laptop and connect it to WiFi. Guess what I planned his job to be? Resteeming only. After all, there's no limit to the number of resteeming allowed! I had calculated that in one hour he could resteem 30 posts. This means that on an average he’d resteem 720 posts in a day and 21,600 in a month! I imagined how much I'd make with such a humongous amount of resteeming. Who knows, I could even win an award for being the fastest Steemian in the world!

Please don't laugh too much. Wait for the next newbie strategy! Seeing that there was no limit to the number of people one could follow, I look for someone with lots of followers and follow all the people he's following, open the next available Steemian and follow all he's following, and on and on. In three days I was following over 6,000 people and I was happy! What a feat!

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In my rush to make money without first educating myself on the fundamental regulations of the platform I had made monumental errors –

my cousin is in town, no job;
I haven’t made money to buy laptop;
my bandwidth isn’t enough to power my blog;
I can hardly resteem....

The power of ignorance!!!

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Be wise - don’t repeat my mistakes.

Be helpful - resteem this post for others to learn

And be kind - upvote me so I can Power Up!