Steemit is rapidly evolving. We're up to 50,000 users now. It's amazing and exciting. On average, a thousand new users join this site daily. Wow! I'm sure they'll bring us all sorts of new publicity, value and insights on an untold scale. And I'm terrified of that.
Less is More
As more people join, more content will be made. More of it will be of a great quality. It might even be of tremendous quality. Perhaps the next Einstein or Newton will first share his inventions on Steemit! And that scares me. Because I might miss it. As the volume of posts increase, so too does my inability to read them all. The average post on Steemit takes around 5 minutes to read. With a volume of 50,000 users, even just a single post by each of them would take 250,000 minutes or 173 days to read. Wow!
That brings me to the subtitle. The current niche for Steemit is long and lengthy blog posts, that go very in depth toward their subject. This is great for a smaller network, or a dedicated group of friends that exchange information, but in the current form of Steemit the quantity becomes simply overwhelming.
If we are to Become Experts, we must Embrace Simplicity.
I believe the current phase of long winded and in-depth Steemit posts will draw to an end, the more mainstream Steemit becomes - and that's just fine! The internet is a place where everything and everyone competes for our attention. From clickbait to formatting, it's all designed to capture our minds. The longwindedness of a post risks losing that attention to boredom or overstimulation. Simpler and shorter posts will lead to a greater amount of information being spread around, even if their volume in words and ideas becomes shorter. Great ideas condensed into small containers will become the calling cards of our network, and our greatest value compounder.
How do you see the future of the network and the evolution of the content that brings its value? Dicuss it in the comments section below, I'd love to see your ideas! As always, for more great content, subscribe to my blog @spookypooky!