@justinmkelly, so good to have you here on Steemit! @bashadow is spot-on and offered some great tips for using the platform. Steemit is definitely a world apart from every other social media site. It's strongly community-based, but the communities don't yet exist on the Steem blockchain. You'll find most of them on Discord, a voice and chat server. A lot of this can be very disorienting and counter-intuitive, but find your tribe and veteran Steemit users will keep you grounded.
I'd like to send a personal invitation to our writers' community on Discord, called The Writers' Block. The Discord group is the first leg of a triangle we're setting up on the Blockchain that includes workshops (The Writers' Block,) our own front-end website, and Steemhouse Publishing. We'd love to have you drop in and visit with us in chat. Click the gif below and it will take you to instructions on how to join.
Thank you. I’ll check it out as soon as I get home tonight.