I guess most of you have already been through this and you can totally relate to this post. Here’s a story of my attempt to convince my dad to join steemit. :P
My dad is a principal in a school and he is occupied with his work most of the time. So, I thought introducing him to this community would help him get rid of work stress somehow and he would enjoy sharing thoughts and interacting with people here. So, I told him about steemit. And it was no surprise to me that he didn’t believe it.
I told him that we get paid for writing good contents here but he instead backfired me saying “If it was so easy to earn, everyone in the world would probably leave their job and just start writing and posting here.” I tried to make him understand but he tried to warn me. He thought it’s a scam and I’d been trapped by someone. He told me not to waste my time on this and invest it in doing something productive. He wasn’t ready to hear what I was explaining. He even told me to visit the doctor to get checked because he thought I was having some problem. (He wasn’t serious about that though. :p).
He wanted to know how we just got money in bank accounts out of nowhere. And I tried to explain him about the blockchain and cryptocurrency and how it works and blah blah. But then he wasn’t also ready to hear. He asked me for evidence when I told him that my friends have been paying for university fees with the money made on steemit. He asked me to show some kind of statement of bank that proved money in steemit being transferred to the person’s account. And I told him I would give him the evidence after I earned a decent amount and withdrew that money. None of my family members has really believed it. And I’m waiting to prove them wrong, especially dad.
When I had first heard about steemit from my friend, I was quite surprised but I didn’t react like this at all. I guess it’s just the human nature that we don’t really trust anyone or anything anymore once we’ve been betrayed. As I was telling my dad about steemit, he told me about how he had been fooled before like that. And it’s true that that are various websites which have turned out to be scams. And that’s why he wasn’t ready to believe me. The amount of resistance he was showing was kind of disappointing though. But I’m looking forward to actually proving him this.
I hope the good people of steemit can help me enlighten my good reluctant dad.
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https://memegenerator.net/instance/64212366/victory-baby-show-me-the-proof-i-need-evidence
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2012/03/26/top-3-reasons-its-not-a-work-at-home-scam/