First time of posting as steemit user

The first day as steemit user, I found out of this platform through one of my online friend living in another city I saw his post about steemit and I ask I was this about he responded it's a blogging platform that pays for posting and get reward by upvote, and I say thank you I'll go through every details you told me, now I'm here trying to post for the first time @mitex I'm glad to be here