Yes I see your point. I agree that we should not make Steemit a 2nd Facebook, that would be horrible. But maybe try to get inspired by some of its possibilities, not literally do the same of course, but do it in our own way, so that Steemit gets better than Facebook, this must be the goal. Of course if Steemit tries to copy Facebook, then it will only be considered as something second-hand.
That communitisation is something I have unfortunately observed since school. There are always groups forming inside a same class. You can't avoid it. They end up neglecting each other, and every group doing things they like together. That's a bit silly for me. But I know you can't always do everything with everyone, and especially laugh about everything with everyone ; no one has the same kind of humor, things like that, there is always a point where people choose their closest friends. But what I hate seeing is some group beginning to think they are the "most popular". I hate that type of reasoning. I always fled from those people who only seek popularity, and who need other people's appreciation in order to feel good. That's plain nonsense. Unfortunately, as we said, on Steemit there can be that type of things. It can't be regulated, anyway, I don't want some police-thing like there are just too many policies and safety measures on Facebook.
That's mainly because of that I joined Steemit, in order to feel more freedom. But still, people should think about what they want out of it, as you say, it's a pity people do "influential wars" for upvotes. This is just counter-productive if we want Steemit, and eventually Steem and SBD, to grow up in time and overrun Facebook and other mainstream sites. If Steem and SBD keep oscillating and stay under 20 dollars, the reason could probably be the fact it is not yet completely united in order to act as a whole and get stronger than Facebook for example. People should post to improve knowledge or entertain, not for anything else, the creation of content in itself and the accumulation of virtual money is not a purpose, because if it was so, it would definitely be nothing better than the obsolete bank-system we're trying to overrun, with only corruption, influential wars and things like that.
I understand your concern my friend, I hope that Steemit does not become a network to criticize or make fun of each other as it is Facebook. Must be to make publications of interest, of course we all do not have the same ineterés but for that is the distribution by trends.
yes that's the main point, I hope it keeps on being like that, I just hate Facebook for this reason, I mean sometimes you can joke, but most people out there seem to be either constantly retarded or constantly drunk / on drugs ; I guess that's what capitalism is all about