Social media is fraught with weird characters and many great people too however many unintelligent people have flooded social media –especially Facebook with information’s that can make a grown man scream in despair –which resulted to people forgetting the big picture here : Knowledge.
Here are some few points:
Steemit is different: The reward system at steemit has made people to bring out their best when posting article and to avoid childish or weird posts like selfies ( when they are in the toilette ) due to the flagging system here. However steemit has its limitations example are those who post a single pictures of cat, bees , flower, birds, house etc without any explanatory notes.
Facebook: many ignorant people have been caught for crimes they posted on FB
One example is the below woman who advertised to sell her 2 kids in order to pay for the bail cost of her boyfriend.
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Knowledge and relationship: Social media is full of knowledge and great relationship opportunities. One good example is steemit where members can learn new things daily and build solid relationships with intelligent people by joining their groups and or communities, asking questions, learning new things and making new contacts. This is how social media should be however most (especially Facebook) are flooded with unintelligent people, posting crimes, selfies and weird stuffs like the one below:
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I agree with you man, Steemit is really the platform for all the writers and bloggers to meet like minded people, and create a good relationship with them. It also helps to learn the writer like us to learn new things, Afterall no one is too old to learn something new.
I also agree with you facebook, is although good for social interaction with friends and family but it is filled with various sort of people who want nothing more than to fraud you or to cause you harm.
I have recently read a in news that Facebook is facing issues of fake news-where there are many idiots who just want increase the visitors to there page post fake news, also many hater in oder to discredit some persons post fake information about them. But, Steemit doesn't have that problem because of its voting system, as if any idiot who tried to post false information then, the community will itself flag him and because of one person one account policy he will be difficult for him to create a new account.
Facebook has done more harm than good to any person & Steemit is something which will in coming future become revolutionize the entire social media, when the number of its users will match that of Facebook.
Very good comment, thanks.
I would agree to what you say about social media in general. But you know, when you look at it in terms of a large average of people, it is mostly stupidity that prevails on social media. Especially with the selfie trend, the attention seeking attitude and over the past few years, the rise of fake news and the inability of people to sift between facts and nonsense. But social media also has a lot of intelligent people on it. The reason we don't see them often is because they are too busy to be posting or doing stupid things.
The problem with most social media is that it doesn't demand quality, and you are basically interacting with friends, and most of them will be either like you. So stupidity is followed by more stupidity.
However steemit has its limitations example are those who post a single pictures of cat, bees , flower, birds, house etc without any explanatory notes. - This will be a trend that will continue. However, most of these users will not be around for long because of Steemit's culture.
Very good comment indeed, I agree. Also following you to stay in touch...keep steeming.
Thank you for the follow @charles1.
Keep posting more engaging articles!
welcome and more success to you
And sadly it's the fools that everyone listens too LOL. Drop knowledge on people rather than rah rah rah, no one pays attention. :-P
Hahahaha you are right buddy...the fools and fake news agents have taken over the vibe!!!
most time we women act so foolishly in social media. nice one upped
you said so Milady!!!
I don't think that all social media users are fools but are sha oooooo
Hmmmmm most are and most are smart
The truth is that a lot of foolish things are happening in social media. nice work
good point
@charles1 your right in social media you will see all kinds of people, both those who have kolo and those that are normal.
Good point
There are a lot of funny characters in social media, one just need to be very careful. good job.
Good point, there are good people in social media too
Social media houses a lot of scammers who are looking for people to defraud . we have to be careful at all times. up voted
good point
Very much in agreement with your opinion. One can get everything in the networks, silly things, even organized criminal gangs. We must make good use of networks. I am relatively new in Steemit and until now I have enriched and expanded my knowledge with respect to other cultures, history among others. Regards..
Welcome , thanks for your comment and more success here
I will grant that Steemit is different. However, I think there are more limitations than you listed i.e. long term viability, the drive to upvote content for gain even if you have not consumed it (which is what a LOT of users, including myself are doing at least some of the time), insane complexity, etc. Also, it is possible that Steemit pulls in a certain demographic which will not change in the foreseeable future due to these limitations.
Good point, I agree.
Hahaha. "Got my hair cut and died today". That was hilarious! :D
Steemit is different and most people understands that quickly. However, we have many users here who're posting just a selfie or two in attempts to get rewards... But these people usually quit and leaves Steemit when they realize that Steemit is not the new Instagram.
Good point, I agree..especially the flower, cat, bee etc posters lol
No, I just think there are more fools (in reality maybe I am a fool also) in other media than on Steemit only because those others have way more members. Percentage wise I think it is all about even.
Good point...FB is a good example
I really agree to what you said, Nowadays most social media are fed up with spams and fraudsters, steemit is really different.
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welcome ...thanks for your comment
I also agree I used to post on Facebook some time ago but stopped after people randomly raging or just answer nonsense. Also a lot of political posts full of hate speech where a reason to change to steemit.
Good point, I agree...
I don't think all in the social media are fools but you can find some few people that act foolishly. Upped.
many not few lol...good point tho
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I think Steemit is quite different from other platform.it quite rare to see irrelevant things on the platform. Steemit bloggers are more professional and careful than facebook or twitter users who are carefree.
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A good read and some many true points, however, I think one has to bear in mind purpose and context when talking about different social media platforms.
Almost all platforms start with a single purpose. Facebook was to connect friends and family and share things with people that you know; Instagram was for photographers; Twitter is a bit harder to define but essentially it was for communicating with likeminded people. They all started with a single purpose and, more importantly, with a small, limited community.
That's what Steemit has now - a small community and a loosely defined but singular purpose. However, all of these platforms have had to diversify, mostly to say profitable, but also partially because how they were used began to define what they were. There's no profit in fake news for Facebook (in fact it brings them a lot of trouble), but that's how people have begun to use it - even I like to use it for news purposes sometimes! It's always easy in the beginning when the community is small and the use is limited to get rid of trouble makers and to police trolls and those who stray from the core purpose. But even Steemit in its relative infancy has problems that, due to its decentralised nature, can't be brought under control with any ease (haejin....?).
I think people believe that because of the way Steemit is setup it will be impossible for the same problems plaguing popular social media to find their way in here. But I think if Steemit is still around in 10 years, we'll be having a different conversation.
OMG this comment is way too long sorry!! Thanks for sharing!!