Steemit has changed my life. Hands down, no questions asked.
Having a platform to post my content with direct monetization has motivated me to create and curate SOOO much more content than IN otherwise would have. I went from writing a few times a week to going around telling people that “I’m a blogger” when asked what I do. This has been wonderful in so many ways, yet like everything, Steemit has it’s dark side.
The Good
I can get paid to write words! Sure this has been possible… forever … but with Steemit I found a platform where I could easily a reliably make money for creating content. No more trying to drive traffic to a website, convincing other blogs to pay me for my articles, using shady ways to convert “free” content into sales. I had a platform to express myself and I was making money doing so.
It’s a wonderful community. Steemit has gathered people from all around the world who are intelligent, interesting and ambitious. That’s my crowd. I’ve enjoyed meeting and interacting with many of you and am excited to meet even more.
The sky's the limit. When I first started reading STeemit I @chbartist making $500+ per post! I was stoked! I looked at his history, saw he was only a few hundred posts deep and thought to myself … “I can do that … I will do that”. And here I am. While I don’t categorize myself as being on that level yet you can be damn sure that I will be … and soon.
The Bad
A lot of people are using Steemit just for profit. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this I think that it’s always nice to have a bit of balance. If you are going to upvote all of your content … you might as well make it look nice.
It seems like it’s become (or has been) pay to play. Unless you have a huge following, it takes bid bots to get onto the trending page. Sure there is a lot of good content out there but there is also a lot of fluff. I wish that there could be a separation between promoted content and organic. Now that would be nice!.
The Ugly
I wake up and think about Steemit. I’ve focused the majority of my work time over the past month creating, curating and promoting content on this platform. Sure it’s great but you’ve got to draw a line somewhere. I think I am relatively good about maintaining balance in my life but I am sure there are some people out there hitting upvote like it’s a goddamn line of blow. Remember folks, life comes first, then Steemit.
I hope you guys liked this post. Let me know what YOU think about the platform and how it’s changed your life.
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