Very good points!
We heard of so many projects last summer that were supposed to "compete" with Steemit, but where are they?
Steemit & STEEM are reaching mainstream levels, and with everything happening with Facebook.. We may very well be the next big thing!
With dlive, dtube, dsound, zappl, steepshot, and all of the others.. We may be taking the same path already!
Here is a chart from Yahoo Finance of Facebook's number of users leading up to 1 Billion users.
1 million — End of 2004.
5.5 million — End of 2005.
12 million — End of 2006.
20 million — April 2007.
50 million — October 2007.
100 million — August 2008.
250 million — July 2009.
500 million — July 2010.
750 million — July 2011.
1.01 billion — September 2012.