Why I turned to steemit. Well, on this you will hear an entirely different reason. Not bizarre but connected to the 'school of life'. When you attend this school; you learn deeper things than secular things. You learn how to spot potential and move on from a turmoil. Every mistake or suffering must be put into change or innovation. Yes. I live in countries where even the internet is racist towards you. It tells you, 'terry scram off, you are from a 3rd world country! Dogs bark at you. I mean, nowadays, there are millionaire dogs! Rich cats, spend hours staring at something else, they can't see you!
And finally, Mark Zuckerberg stays on his arm-rolling chair, watching pawns in his dreams as he decides the next random pawn to pick to zuck out of their dreams. Funny!
I especially live in a place where it is a crime to even dream! Maintaining dreams is daunting! Okay, if you are to lazy to quit and get to dream; nobody tells you, when you get yourself to carry this heavy dream to the nearest cliff to hurl it off, till its pieces are shattered and unsoughtable. Hahaha, a cliff is always readily available.
Days go by, and your being can't take it; it needs to dream! So you climb all the way back down that cliff, to excavate the pieces of your shattered dream; rebuild it; carry it all the way back up; only to re-hurl it!
Your stubborn inability to embrace mediocrity however, keeps you on this path; in this cycle and to make your hustle tougher, you feel like 'in a luxury bubble for the masses' amusement' as each day, you get more clarity that you are likely the only one in an entire nation in hustle state!
You have a brain like a genius and in your mind's eye you build your brand; your empire and have to overcome a nation to accomplish this; only for a stranger Mark Zuckerberg; to throw a huge 'berg' at you, whenever he decides to.
Before I hint you on my experience let me tell you this "Social networks and stuff for me, is also a means to let my ideas come to life".
My only desire ever, has been to be in USA or some enabling country, where info exists and mentors and a team of like-minded people but years fly and that doesn't come to pass!
So how about have an idea of mine at least, begin in small ways! For instance; "my eventual vision is for an app or let's say a kind of game or a type of social network, that will storm earth but I don't yet have the means or the enabling environment to accomplish this! However, i want to begin this vision, even in small ways by means of a Facebook group or page; to the dream alive; as a means to fulfillment even now; to inspire myself as I am in a nation where none of elements of that exist: "Now don't raise your hopes up at this point", as just when you have built your page or group to a sound state and it is starting to boom, your hopes can be shattered in milliseconds!
Read my short experience with Facebook, just below:
Read about Multiple Bernie Sanders Facebook Groups and Pages that got deleted here!
On my first Facebook account; I wrote a message to Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account; relating to him, excerpts of an idea, that I feel will bring Facebook more revenue. The next day, my Facebook account was deleted for an undisclosable reason.
I got really devastated but I started all over! My second Facebook account was deleted months later! I had started to create Facebook groups to spark my ideas into existence even if in virtuality. I started a group called 'Reviralize', that was to help people struggling on Youtube, with getting organic views to their channel; along with a few other pages, then my account got deleted again but this time I couldn't take it! I was crushed and this came at a time when my entire being was weak from depression!
I pestered Facebook with non-stop emails!
They eventually restored my Facebook account but they have deleted all my groups! They also have deleted a group of a friend, to which i was admin.
My endless plea to get Facebook to have my Facebook groups restored, fell on deaf ears, as they didn't respond any longer!
Overall, it started to get evident that perhaps, Facebook wasn't built for us to promote and build our dreams! It is perhaps, a very business-inclined model to its owners as they have you engage your friends and family; in bring revenue to an advertising empire.
In the real world of business today, there isn't that much empathy!
If you have Facebook page thus, the voice you hear is; "pay to promote your page or go!"
Facebook thus, wasn't going to serve my purpose fully, thus i started to sought change!
Too, was the necessity for back-up really! I mean, logically, it isn't wise to leave your entire dream; business model; innovation ideas etc, in hands of sole proprietor! Mark Zuckerberg for instance, is one human!
I don't know his age now but seriously he can be 33 tomorrow and he can just say; "harry let's cut down 33,000,000 members with dreams from Facebook; for I am 31 and at age 40; I want to be the only one on the planet, with the right to dream!" I won't be able to really hold that against him, so i started to sought backup; "Where do i keep all my hard work, in case Facebook disappoints!"
This solidified the need to find some home on the internet!
Too, i had to find some place, that is totally out of the reach of Mark! I mean, he seems to buy everything in his way or everything that gathers people! He bought whatsapp, perhaps, for the millions of people on it or perhaps because he feels like it! Facebook is becoming free!
I had to look for alternatives and first, i found tsu.co; which felt a bit like home till it crumbled and my theories were complete! "We really do need a decentralized type of social network, which lies in the hands of no-one, with limited probabilities of going into extinction"; then came steemit!
For starters; forget money! Who doesn't want to feel the presence of real humans; on an internet where humans appear to have become scarce; more like automated!
An inanimate internet has changed the way humans behave when on the internet!
Really, who doesn't want real human interaction, these days! Who doesn't like fiverr.com, where you can see real humans effecting movements!
I have a brand that intends to surpass Google, yes I call it 'surpassing Google', which will aim at re-making human intelligence into beating artificial intelligence! I tested steemit and it started to felt good! I didn't have the highest expectations at the beginning but for starters i relished the feeling that at least, i can have a back-up for all my work; i could post them, save them forever! Now that's settled.
Next the whole model of steemit organically, makes it more humanly. I mean, it is guarded in such a way that will make you interact. You are encouraged to create content and to maintain the visibility of your content, you are tempted to interact!
You start to to feel some empathy in air. You started to feel the presence of like-minded. Hahaha, you even start to feel like some CEO as your stakes in the project grows!
Promoting original content is encouraged; which gives you incentive, to want to redefine your raw ideas and promoting you brand; gradually building your empire!
Now who doesn't want followers? Ofcourse, I do! More than anything else, having followers who engage with your creations, motivates you; keeps you enabled and inspires you!
We all know the rest of the journey. "I ended up finding steemit and i stayed!"
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Your boy TERRY
That sounds like a good reason to me!
haha, thank you! yes!
I am in awe of your determination @surpassinggoogle keep it up
I am in awe of your choice of words to describe me. Thank you!