Greetings Felines and Hoomans of SteemLand! It's my favorite day of the week again: *Caturday!* Seems like we're slowly seeing the "cat community" on Steemit growing... and that's really nice to see! I try to somewhat keep track of different cat related tags, and usage of **#Caturday** and **#catsofsteemit** and just the more general **#cats** are all trending up. I am running rather late with this week's Caturday post... the Hoomans seem so busy with all their "spring cleaning" that I just don't seem to get much computer time... and I *still* haven't quite figured out the whole *"typing"* thing, on my own! ![CC0207TargetAcquired.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/curatorcat/WwqB707u-CC0207-TargetAcquired.jpg) *Target acquired! Playtime on the stairs...* ## The Steem vs. Steemit Confusion Some folks, it seems, get very adamant about what "this" is what's "Steemit" and what's "Steem." Many of the "techy" people seem to think they *"know the answer,"* but I'm not sure they *actually* do... and it seems like not even *Steemit, Inc.* seems to make a clear distinction. What I have been able to determine is that *"Steem"* is a *token (or cryptocurrency)* and it's a *blockchain.* Meanwhile, *"Steemit"* is the name of a *company,* and it's also a particular *front-end user interface* that allows people to interface with and post content on the *Steem* blockchain. ![CC0207Hiding.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/curatorcat/sZ5APjro-CC0207-Hiding.jpg) *Hiding under the Dad-Hooman's leg* Now, some of aforesaid "techies" will insist that there's no such thing as *"blogging on Steemit,"* to which I say *"if I'm using the Steemit.com interface to post my blog post to the Steem blockchain, then I'm 'blogging on Steemit,' and please get off my leg!"* Mostly, it all seems to quickly fall under the heading of *opinions,* and *perceptions...* which leads me to my next observation... which is mostly to do with the way we *use language:* ![CC0207Cleaning.jpg](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/curatorcat/O1s2lQLY-CC0207-Cleaning.jpg) *Cleaning after playtime... but did you really HAVE to post this? Not very flattering angle....* ## Eventually, Correctness Depends on Usage New words and terms end up in dictionaries because of the way people *use* language. Google, for example, is becoming a verb: *"to Google."* It was never a *"real word,"* but because we pretty much all say things like *"I'm gonna Google that!"* the idea of *Googling* something is becoming a thing. What does this have to do with Steemit?

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Back on my perch by the window...

Notwithstanding what I just wrote above, this place was created by *Steemit,* Inc., and the *original* way people started creating content here was by *joining Steemit.* And that created a *"usage precedent"* at the beginning of our little journey here. And those have a way of *sticking,* not because they are *CORRECT,* but because they represent *"common usage."* And so, we still ask for *"a Kleenex"* (even though "Kleenex") is a *BRAND* not an *item;* people still refer to *copying* as *"making a xerox"* (even though most copy machines aren't *made" by Xerox) and people blog on *"Blogger"* even though all those *millions* of blogs actually live on a site called *BlogSpot.* And if you really want to get nit-picky technical about it, we are NOT *"creating content on Steem,"* we're creating content on Steemit, SteemPeak, Partiko, Dtube, Steemmonsters and various other interfaces... "Steem" is merely the *container* where all our creations end up... a bit like the Blogger/BlogSpot example, above. What's my point?

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Time to have some fun...

It's extremely difficult to go against *"common usage,"* particularly if the ostensibly *correct* usage doesn't seem immediately intuitive and obvious. People tend to do *what makes sense,* and after a while that replaces *"technically correct."* And — at least in my world — it makes more sense to use *Steemit* for the social content creation, *MOSTLY* to set that apart from *Steem,* the cryptocurrency. Conversely, it *does* make sense to say that you are *building an app* on *Steem,* rather than Steemit. But building an app... and creating content... are two *completely different things!* Well, time for me to stop being *"all serious, and stuff,"* and go enjoy the rest of my Caturday! Hope *yours* has been a great one! # =^..^= **20190406 0207** **100% Powered up!** ***80.56% of the way to 500SP goal!*** ***Target date: June 30th, 2019***

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