Great info. I can see a true shift in my Facebook throngs that I convinced to come in here. They are all making decent money now and my artist friend, just made it to the 2nd place with her story about the airport in Himalayas. All of her posts are doing quite well now, as she is a talented artist. I think she and others are hooked now. They have abadoned facebook, actually most of us have formed our own Steemit facebook groups, which is a great way for us all to promote eachother's posts and keep up with things on steemit! I'm in 3 Steemit Facebook groups! it's bizarre! I've learned new information though through those groups and it's an intimate way to get acquainted with Steemians! This is great news! I feel that in 6 months, we'll be looking at well over 200,000 or even more. We need to make newer jobs for everyone besides writing!
Thanks, @stellabelle. You got me hooked. My confidence has soared. And I'm humbled by the comments on everything I post. I cannot believe how my life has changed in one month. On Thursday I got an email that would have destroyed me a few short weeks ago - they cancelled my color and composition class I was supposed to start teaching August 29th. I have to say I was relieved. But it was a sobering reminder of the dangers of depending on others for your income.
Yes, best to depend upon yourself.
Thank you for your input, actually I have never been a social media guy myself, although I have been a software engineer since the early nineties and my work have been focused on internet technologies, but neither Facebook or Twitter caught my attention, I never got hooked to any of those, but something about Steemit is really different, it’s decentralized and fairly anonymous, and actually paying good money for good content. I’m sure something big just started here. I would never have imagined I would get hooked to a social media platform like Steemit, but I did.
I think I’m going to need your wonderful secret writer service soon to write my story: “confessions of a steemoholic” :D
Thanks again!
I guess I am in a unique category because I taught myself how to build websites back in the early days. I did some programming also and have been obsessed with digital media from the early times. I always viewed the early social media sites, Friendster and Myspace as a way to share my art and create colloaborative projects. I was always pushing the envelope in some way, trying to add some functionality to the platforms. If anything, I'm a collaborator, have been since early times but I'm a loner as well, and I much prefer to be at a computer than out at a party. Creative ideas when combined with technology has been my mainstay and I pretty much taught myself everything as far as computer graphics/editing/video goes. Steemit, for me is a great culmination of all the work i've been doing both in computer art to collaborating with others. It's a dream actually....
For me it’s a culmination of blockchain and social media, it’s a powerful match for sure.
Enjoyed reading your words, as always :)
@stellabelle.. I want to highlight what you said that should be a spotlighted discussion,
Agreed. Steemit can absolutely be an incubator for decentralized, steem powered powered jobs, maybe even steem powered products and services. I even envision a day where a decentralized company will also be the largest decentralized employer. Truly a company, furthermore an economy, for the people by the people.
Would love to hear your ideas.
ACtually, each person needs to self-create their own job. Look at @roelandp, @fyrstikken, and hell, look at me. I do several jobs in Steemit, many more than most people as I take commenting and giving people support very seriously. I also take creativity very seriously as that is what i do best: generating ideas, bringing people together and hopefully lessening the existential pain we all feel!
Well, I'm in touch with say, some of the whales, I can say for sure that the vision is to have a marketplace and more soon! Think about it, I'd rather spend my Steem Dollars instead of going through the trouble of converting them. I have certain needs that are going unmet currently. I'm also thinking big because I live in a community and could potentially be buying land. I am interested in cultivating the idea of Steem in a physical realm too. Therefore, the commerce could be even more stable, with people living together, and doing their work using Steem power and never having to venture outside of Steem.
@stellabelle: I was thinking about what you said today about "each person needs to self-create their own job." And, it gave me an idea....
(I also checked out @roelandp and @fyrsikken.... Right on the money.)
The more I thought about what you said the more I realized that there's a lot of people on here who are probably working hard to create their own job and could actually create physical products and services that could be steem powered. I believe #Steem'sGotTalent...
So, my idea is to organize Steemit's first ever hackathon/pitch competition to highlight and jump start steem powered products and services! To ensure people are on the right track, founders,dev, and whales can reverse pitch to the community on needs the community has. They will also make plenty of steem in the process. Furthermore, I would invite you, @stellabelle, to be one of the judges if you're interested in selecting the winner which you would make a lot of steem in the process as well.
Lastly, since it's not all about the steem.. I will be giving all the steem gained from "hosting" the hackathon/pitch competition as a prize to the winner that will be selected by the judges, one of whom will be the steemit community itself. The newfound funding will give the winning team resources to execute on their product and service which will make steemit even more valuable in the long run.
Win. Win. Win.