Is Steemit doomed because people are in it for the coin and not the content?
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, The man who never reads lives only one.” Jojen
As a digital marketing consultant it is my job to train business owners and marketing people how to get people to actually read, slow down the pace of life to really take in what you are saying.
People are reading less and less each day to the dismay of our parents who knew the magic and meditation in reading. My own mother would take a book to bed and read till the early hours, I asked her once and she told me she is totally lost in the pages and feels wonderful after any period of reading like a kind of meditation. Something she feels is lost on most of our generation.
There are still good writers out there I am sure, sorry I don't include J.K. Rowling in the genre up there with Twain and Dickens, however much I admire her entrepreneurial spirit. I am talking about writers who can without any effort make you sit for the time needed to be drawn into a book and absorb the story as pure enjoyment, and not make you fall asleep or see it as any kind of a job.
Most of us blog every day because we are told if we want to keep our business effective online, and for those of us who earn a living online to keep earning and maintain a brand. Yet experts are telling us to break it down into smaller paragraphs, have bullet points, lots of images, highlight the words, have a take away because alas what you are saying is not really going to interest anyone these days.
Which brings me to my concern about Steemit and any site that pays you to read and comment, how many people are up-voting, replying to blogs with the blandest of replies, and following people to get paid in their crypto currency only?
Everyone wants to earn a living online, a tiny percentage are doing it, it took me 8 years of hardship to earn a salary which is decent for Thailand, so with this in mind I fear many will be just playing the game and not really blogging only to impart good advice or just get something off your chest which is the real crux of why some make it as bloggers and most don't make it and are back on the bus to their old jobs with the tail between their legs.
You have to stick to your passion as it is only your passion, your legacy you want to leave to the world which will see you through.
IF, the majority of Steemians are just playing the game for cash only and are scanning articles for the meat and get out as fast as they can, then as much as it hurts me to say it the site will rise and fall, when there will only be a few top pioneers who saw it before anyone else are making the most and the rest try for a few months and disappear in a capitalist catastrophe.
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
I hope not, but someone had to say it....
Alan