100% agree
This was why I was attracted to Steemit in the first place. I loved seeing real people holding their cards with the Steemit name and date.
That blew me away and I just had to join.
But there is back story to why this so impressed me:
I actually avoided Facebook for years as I was just to obusy and thought it was nonsense (it is of course lol!)
Anyway due to pressure from friends I ended up joining only about 2 or so years ago now, and again, I used my real name. I actually was so naive I thought everyone did.
Anyways I started making "friends" with people from other countries and particularly in America.
There was this one guy I really liked and got on well with. He was passionate about Trump and wanted him to win. Then one day he tells me that he was using his X-girlfriends account to create a fake I.D. And he was doing this so that his friends and work colleagues did not know his real views because at that time Trump was being ridiculed.
Well I carried on talking with the guy and still I like him. But then when Trump won he tells me he would now reveal his true identity. He contacts me on the private messenger thingy and says "Hi its me Arthur".
It turns out he was some guy living in Las Vegas and he looked nothing like I imagined.
Now here´s the thing. My reaction was not what I could have predicted.
I suddenly felt like I ever knew the guy at all. And I felt a bit kind of, well cheated in a way. I can´t find how to express it actually.
Needless to say I suddenly found I could no longer relate to the guy and gradually we stopped chatting. Its been over a month since I spoke or heard of him. This experience for me has been a case of once bitten twice shy and I am not so sure I would give my time again to someone I did not know for sure who they really are.
Thought provoking post @hilarski
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