I do not have enough of a crypto mindset just yet. Hive being the only crypto I know about. Yes there is BTC and ETH, and a few others that get mentioned a lot, but for me it is just Hive. I like the holding part, the growing part and the social part of Hive. It is almost like my morning newspaper read and only a few sections of it at that.
I look some times at the headlines, but it has been ages it seems since looking at the trending page (front page head lines).
I look mostly at the social pages, up coming events and happenings. Then I jump into the funny pages part for the couple of little games I like, the zombie text game (no real rewards other than a few Hive-Engine social tokens), and then at FTG's little picture game.
Then there are the music review pages and the book/story review pages. People selections for reading and listening.
I am not sure if this will be the year I step out of Hive Crypto and start exploring more about it. I have picked up a few things about crypto from Hive Block Chain, but I really have not explored crypto much at all.
The question for myself is would I still be here if there were no rewards at all? No feel of a game, or a chance to maybe, just maybe, improve ones retirement outlook. I do not know. I like the rewards, I like trying to learn how to get more and how to grow my account, but to what end? four and a half years and still I do not have nor have learned how to withdraw Hive and make it into fiat money. There just is no need for that knowledge yet, so the growing of the account continues. Maybe if it hit a value of one million dollars I would learn to convert some to fiat money.
It becomes part of life very easily, which is why people should get involved early - integrate it as soon as possible.
I can't say if there were no rewards if you'd be here, but then it doesn't become much different to other consumer places - so I suspect you'd spend a lot less time here. But, as other platforms and medias move in this direction, it is going to get interesting to see if they are able to generate value.
I might still be here rewards or none. I gave FB, and other interact type medias a try, but none of them lasted more than a few weeks at most. So 4.5 years, it could be the rewards, none of the others offered that, but then again Hive does not offer up a lot of trollish childish behavior. It does happen but not like I saw in other areas, and I can easily mute and not see the idiots if I want.
This is true.
I think people "feel rewarded" on those platforms, even though they get nothing. Many actually like that trollosh behavior, they love seeing other people suffer.
I like it here. I am not going anywhere else, anytime soon.
I had a co-worker who was into FB, he was real happy when he got 5000 friends. I asked him how many he spoke to on a daily or even weekly basis, it was not very many. I am kind of glad I never got involved in the social side of the internet very much. I had a lot of fun pre-FB and youtube, but when they came around things just changed to much. Most of the change started with the before facebook site of Myspace. The death of the personal home page also had a big impact on my internet activities.