My Name Is Brian and This Is Why I Joined Steemit + Self-Verification

Hello everyone! My name is Brian Lewis. I blog and write fiction in my spare time. I have a twitter and youtube account where I like to talk about politics, but it's not of the PC variety lol. I am joining Steemit because I believe in the potential of the cryptocurrency space and think it might be one of the most disruptive forms of wealth generation we've seen potentially ever in human history. In the past, your ability to make money was limited by your access to resources to be able to profit off of a new trend. While that model is still very much in existence, crypto's give regular people to ability to make more money than most jobs that are available out here. It's not without its problems however and I don't believe there is such a thing as a "perfect crypto," but I do think there's a tremendous amount of room to grow for this entire world. 

Regarding Steemit itself, I'm joining because I don't like where "traditional social media" is going. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, they all have a growing number of problems. This Russia investigation is being used as a backdoor to silence certain voices and stifle speech. When you combine this with the threat to net neutrality, you can envision a future where traditional social media might lose its appeal. It seems hard to imagine because Facebook/Youtube/Twitter have so much power and influence right now. While MySpace never had the widespread appeal of the aforementioned platforms, it was still popular and was eventually overtaken by better systems like Facebook.

Steemit is the next logical step of social media in the age of crony capitalism. Give power to the creators, the people making these sites hot. Other social media sites out here want you to put in all this effort to build followings and they continuously take more and more and more power away from you and give nothing in return. Sure, you can advertise...but what they don't tell you about social media advertising is that it can be a HUGE money sink. So again, you get nothing out of your effort and the Facebook's of the internet take all your cash without thinking twice. 

Rant over lol 

I just wanted everyone to know why I'm here and that I feel this is still the ground level - the entry point if you will. I plan on writing a lot of fiction and seeing how the community reacts to it.

Once again, hi all.