What’s going on Steemers! Very excited about this post because I love shedding light on topics that are known, but are not treasured, especially when it comes to growing this amazing platform Steemit and expanding the great community that follows with it!
I know that Steemit is is most popular in the United States when compared to anywhere else in this world, but everywhere but the United States is the most important for mass adoption. See we’re not alone here and we only make up a very very small part of the world as a whole. Other countries that have access to Steemit are the ones we want to be pushing and helping them understand that not only can they be a part of a huge community, but can get paid at the same time.
Currently and obviously the United States has the majority of visitors at 40.3% while South Africa has 0.5%. Now as of 2018 the United States has a population of 326,766,748 people and South Africa has 57,398,421. Imagine if South Africa visitors on a Steemit went from just 0.5% to 5%? The amount of users on a Steemit would make 500k users look like nothing. And I’m using South Africa as an example just because they have the smallest amount of use in Steemit currently. If you consider all the other countries involved as of now (expanding their users) our Steemit community would be in the millions and the price of a Steem would be MASSIVE. Here are 3 images of current populations and users of Steemit.
If you do the math and predictions, the outcome is enormous. Another perspective is these other countries, especially 3rd world countries or just countries less fortunate that don’t make as much money as the average American citizen, is getting paid 1 Steem/SBD in another country is way more valuable than it is in the United States. An alarming example is 1 USD is worth a whopping 12.5 South African Rand (South Africa’s currency). So with Steem being worth around 3.50 right now, 1 Steem in South Africa would be worth almost 40 South African Rands! Over there they can do way more than we can with that money, being the USD is worthless with the prices of everyday living we deal with and taxes and every other depressing regulation in the United States.
So Steemers what I am saying is we have to expand, in any way possible. We both need and want them to grow with us so we can put Facebook out of business. Other languages on Steemit need to be more poplular, other countries need to be more aware of this platform as well as the amazing community that comes with it. Thank you for reading.
You are right, lol the stats show you are right, A personal opinion, is that steemit needs to expand outside of steemit and outside of the internet. Maybe it needs to gain some solidity or more users before this, Or maybe, waiting loses opportunity.
It’s really up the the community and the witnesses as a whole to make it happen. Expansion need to come ASAP.
If you would like to be at the start of expansion
I have ideas on that, Thus why I am here, By my progress it will take a bit of time to reach goals of what is needed, I have an ideology in my head that's so big, Maybe it is too big to happen. Happening tho, removes much of the pressure today's society holds over us. At least loosens the chains if not remove them.
Thank you for the upvote :) Soon I hope to be able to return one with a bit more power to it, (waiting for the steem price to drop a bit) https://steemit.com/steem/@brayias/is-this-where-we-rewrite-history-or-just-another-episode-of-something-done-and-re-written-for-a-new-audience
Great article @brandonscalera. Steem mass adoption will be great. The global growth will be awesome to see. #steem to the moon and we will be riding and helping the world along the way
good post your all.post so nice dear thanks for sharing...
Steemit for the win
Nice post buddy
Keep it up
i know that ..ao i now work on steemit bro..
Thanks for the info
This is a reliable platform. The day's usage will increase further.
Hey, thanks for sharing this. I am personally from South Africa so it was cool to see you use it as an example. As always, thank you for insightful content in your posts. It makes me want to take steem a little bit more serious. This could get huge!
Hey Brandon,
thanks for sharing this statistics, it can help a lot at the moment when we decide the posting time for our articles and benefit the highest number of friends with it.
All the best
Hi @brandonscalera whats up bro i love this post in fact i was wondering would you be interested in talking with me more about how to grow this community if so shoot me an email at [email protected]
i know bro..so i now work on steemit bro ...thanks for more info.
Yeah bro , probably this year is going to be big for steemit , many people are getting aware of it . Many profiles are building up day by day . Yeah it’s our responsibility to spread the word to many people out there . Your stats are really awesome , just a 1% increase in my country 🇮🇳 would make more than 100k new users into steemit 😁
Where are you located?
he is from india @brandonscalera out of every 6 members of worlds total population one will be indian. his stats make sense
I agree that there's plenty of room for user growth on Steemit! I don't personally know anyone else who uses Steemit. Adoption is slow, but growing. I'm trying to convince people to join.
The prices at many stores in SA are such that you end up paying about the same amount of money for something as you would in the USA. If it would cost $10 in the USA, it would cost 120 Rand. There are exceptions, but it's not like you should expect 50-75% off or something...unless buying locally-grown food, maybe.
My country India which is the second largest in population. It Is very behind in terms of internet access. Very few people used to get internet until JIO came last year. JIO internet have reduce the internet prices. Early Vodafone and other used to charged 200 Rs for 2GB internet. JIO is charging 149Rs for 28GB per month. Now most people are having internet access thanks to JIO. I hope now people starts joining Steemit too.