Communication started when human beings set foot on this planet earth.
When there was no language people used to communicate with gestures and signs.
The communication started to get better as people learned languages.
Now I don't know what language the early people spoke but we are grateful to them that they started a way which helped the human race communicate with each other.
People also used signs to express their thoughts and share information with their communities.
Time passed by and the communication system started getting better and better and not so long ago someone tied two cups of tin or whatever metal he used with a string and he was able to listen to another person at a distance from him.
People learned the skill of writing and wrote letters to each other as means of communication and that brought post offices into existence.
Time passed by and Alexander Graham Bell came up with a telephone and revolutionised the communication system.
People were now able to talk with each other from different corners of the world.
What really revolutionised the communication process is Internet, perhaps the greatest invention in the of 90's in the field of communication.
Out came the social network and people were able to make friends throughout the globe and stay in touch by chatting or calling through internet.
Rise of social networking
After the invention of internet, many websites or applications started offering online chatting and it was in 2004, the social networking giant Facebook came into existence and has been dominating the social networking world since then.
Another social networking website Twitter followed and millions of people started using it.
There are other famous social networking platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, Google Plus and others which account for billions of users around the world.
People around the world spend hours daily on these websites and consume huge amount of data.
I don't know a person (In my area) who doesn't use Facebook or Instagram here.
Every age group is involved in this huge sea.
Even my 10 year old cousin has as many as 8 facebook accounts and plenty of instagram accounts as well.
Okay, enough being said about the popularity of these social networking websites, have you ever wondered how much profit they make from the time and data you spend on these websites?
Have you ever wondered that the data and information you share with your friends or colleagues is safe or not?
Have you ever wondered that you get the transparency you wanted from these social networking sites?
Well let me answer these questions one by one:
What do you get in return?
Nothing
No your data is not safe because of the centralised nature of these websites.
No you don't.
All these past years you have spent your valuable time, money and only suffered at the hands of these social networking websites that gave nothing in return.
So what do you need to do now??
Stop using these social networking websites?
Well I bet you can't because they have became a part of you and it might be very hard for you to leave them.
So better look for an alternative, perhaps a decentralised one!!
Solution
The first social media application built on blockchain was steemit and by far it is the most successful one.
There will be many many more social media applications built on blockchain in future and I reckon you should keep an eye on the as they along with steemit will change the world of social media forever.
Thank you for reading!
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