SPHERE - The Decentralized Social Network.

wanizubair (56)in #steemit • 6 years ago (edited)

The advancement of technology has improved our world greatly. Technology has also had a great positive effect in communication system. Communication system has undergone numerous changes as a result of improvement in technology.

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In ancient times People used different ways of communication such as the use of smoke signals to send messages. Besides, people used messengers and drum sounds for communication.Time passed by and the communication system started getting better and better and not so long ago someone tied two cups of tin and he was able to listen to another person at a distance from him.With advancement in technology, paper and some sign languages came into existence people learned the skill of writing and wrote letters to each other as means of communication. Then came the portal system which made contact and communication in general easier.

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As time passes Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone when he made the first call on March 10, 1876 and revolutionised the communication system.Telephone system which was a milestone in the history of communication. It made communication easier than ever before. The telephone has had a big impact on the world. The telephone has made communication more efficient and faster.
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Communication system was revolutionized with the introduction of internet. It has become a global means of communication in our everyday lives. In present era we have some fast and reliable means of communication like newspapers, radio television mobile phones but we can't imagine our lives without internet.

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What really revolutionised the communication process is social media. Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create content in social networking. The rise of social media had made it faster and easier to access information around the world.
The social media sites are making it much easier for people to find one another even after decades of being apart. Social media is affecting our lives immensely. It is impossible for the youth to exist without the social networking sites. One could now easily make friends throughout the globe and stay in touch by chatting through internet.
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There are various social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, youtube, LinkedIn, google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, snapchat, Reddit, Flickr, Whatsapp etc. Facebook, Instagram Twitter are the most popular social networking websites. People around the world spend hours daily on these websites and consume huge amount of data. These social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc earns huge amount of money. The most common way for websites to generate revenue is to allow companies to advertise on the site. Web advertising is still an emerging market. Advertisers are willing to pay more for an ad on social networking sites because of the large number of users of social networking sites. The problem with social media is that your online activity, data and privacy belongs to them and they freely sell it all to the highest bidder.Your account contributed $5.32 to Facebook last year, you’ve been commoditized and you never even knew it. These companies earn money from your work and you're aware of the fact that is really injustice with you. It must be the right of a person to get paid for the work he performs.

Is there any solution to this? Is there anything website that will pay you rather than taking your money from you and value your privacy and data?

Yes yes yes............. There is a decentralised social networking platform which assures data security, privacy, transparency and provides the worth of your data, your ideas and your time is #### SPHERE.

What is Sphere?

Sphere is a next-generation decentralized Social Media network.

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Sphere is decentralised social network which aims to give power back to the people.

Sphere is a Decentralized Social Network platform that offers an integrated, decentralized market, complete with its own advertising platform. Sphere is not just another social network which helps people to interact with friends, relatives and other people but guarantees privacy and the security of your data.

As I mentioned above the current social networking websites do earn huge volumes of money from your activities on these websites and your online activity, data and privacy belongs to them and they freely sell it all to the highest bidder because of the centralised nature of these websites. SPHERE is creating a decentralised social network which is totally different from the centralised one as it assures the data security, transparency and privacy. Sphere is built on the main principles of privacy and security and you get compensated and above all you take back the power with every click and every social connection. With the help of sphere innovative advent the advertisers can target the people more efficiently and effectively.
This will allow advertisers to reach their consumers directly cutting down the extra marketing costs they spend on other websites.This will benefit users as well as the advertisers.

The cryptocurrency used by Sphere.

With Sphere you can spend your time posting, liking and commenting and you get paid not in a piece of paper with no real value that could be lost, stolen, or lose its value at any time but instead in a safe and stable cryptocurrency called social activity tokens or simply SAT. SATs are a digital currency used facilitate transactions within the decentralized network. SAT will be listed in some key exchanges where you can trade it too.

The current price of 1 SAT token is $0.14 USD and it's believed that the price is only going to go in positive direction.
Sphere is currently running the ICO(Initial Coin Offering) that started on 12th of Feb this year and is going to end it on 9th of April 2018.
The total circulating supply of SAT tokens during the ICO is 1 billion.Out of the total circulating supply, buyers will be able to get a hold on 65%of the total tokens.

ICO TIMELINE

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You can participate in the token sale click Here.

This is the best time to buy these tokens, if you don't have any money to buy, sphere is still providing you many ways to earn its tokens by providing the bounty program.