I've been on Steemit for about 6 weeks now, and have talked to many people about the platform in that time. I singled out many individuals I knew had a knowledge of either crypto or social media, etc. to talk to; and found none of them had heard of Steemit.
I was pretty surprised and made a Facebook post recently asking whom out of my friends were on Steemit. Due to extensive traveling and subcultures, I have over 1500 Facebook friends from all over the world. To my astonishment, I received absolutely zero response on the post.
I really hope the word starts to spread soon. I know the user count has been growing rapidly but I'm still amazed at the amount of people who had never heard of the platform.
Anyways, good article. Interesting tidbit about the book, I had never heard of that before. I think Facebook will eventually crumble and Zuckerberg will take his money and move in another direction before things get too bad for him. But, who knows :)
I'm curious to know what the percentage of the people on Steemit are Americans... Koreans, French, Russians, etc. That'll cut down even further on those who know about it in this country.
As for Zuckerberg... don't be freaked out if he's running for President with Oprah on the Democratic ticket in 2020 (or will that be switched?)
That's a good point. Still, though, I would mention it to people who work in social media professionally and they hadn't heard a word about it. It seemed a little odd to me.
And I forgot about his political plans! Oh boy that will be interesting.
Right? I haven't bothered to mention it to anyone because I know I'll get that blank stare. Even my one friend who's into crypto hadn't heard of it until I mentioned it.
Zuckerberg's a smart guy with a massive ego. He's conquered the business world and he's young. I jokingly say he'll run in 2020 'cause I don't know if he'll be ready. I think he'll make sure his ducks are all lined up before he does it. Of course, Clinton thought she was all lined up and we saw how that turned out.