I first joined social media back in the Myspace days. At first I thought it was really cool, and I enjoyed the ability to customize my page, but it was pretty hard for me to make a lot of connections, because I am not a very social person. The fact that I have always been awkwardly skinny, short and relatively unattractive didn't make life fun. As the years rolled on and Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter were introduced I became pretty disgusted with social media in general. It was the same story, attractive girl posts a photo, gains hundreds of followers, gets massive amounts of love and attention. I post a photo, my best friend shows me support, and that was about it.
Every other social platform I have used simply boiled down to a bunch of vain people showing off, girls posting pictures of their boyfriends and ultimately ended up with the people with the most attractive genetics reining supreme. I stopped using social media for a long time because it made me feel pretty bummed out. Honestly, I was jealous, jealous that I really had no chance to gain anything on these platforms. I would never be as attractive or as cool as these other people, and I really wished I could switch my Facebook status to "in a relationship" but it never happened.
I am really thankful for Steemit, because for once things are not based on looks. Everyone has been put on a level playing field and the people who work hardest to create, build and nurture the community will be the most successful. It's nice to say that content is king and looks no longer matter.
"attractive girl posts a photo, gains hundreds of followers, gets massive amounts of love and attention." I always wondered how did we allow Kim Kardashian? It's a shallow society of fakeness of superiority... based on inferiority complex. Look how much I have, look how happy I am.. So on. Likes counting.
It's the era of resembling everything that's happening around us too - overproduction, over-waste, over-rush. People got used to it. Since we are little copy cats (human nature) we, ourselves started acting like that (vast majority at least, not all) and it became a norm. Tell a lie a hundred times and it becomes the truth. In the beginning we think its shallow, phony - as time passes we adopt it.
Steemit is a nice concept, but just as in real life has its own social politics that are not ideal :)
A look is a content too but for fortunately not the only one. Everything can be a content if it can trigger readers interest and Steemit is a prove to that.