Tutorial: How to send a private message on steemit ---> use #

This is a tutorial for keeping your message private

On steemit there still is'nt a privatemessage system. There might be in the future who knows.
On busy.org you can sent a person a message and there is also steemitchat. However alot of people don't use busy or steemitchat.
Most people, if they want someones attention for a message to send to them are going to wallet and send a little amount of sbd or steem to that person and send a memo with it.

This is not an optimal way because this is'nt even close to a private message. Everyone who goes to your or the receivers wallet can see the message in history.

But there is a way to make sure only you and the receiver can see the message (memo).
Just by putting a hashtag before your message.

This is when you send someone a memo without hashtag (#):

result in history:

But when you type a # before your text like on following screenshot, he/she is the only one who can read it:

When you then check the memo's in history of the receiver you wont see your text, it is only visible for him :):

This way you now can contact people on steemit itself and keeping private for other persons checking the wallet of the receiver.

I hope you find this useful! alot people on steemit don't know this trick.

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