No I am not talking about the ability to earn money from blogging and interacting on a social media site, although that is definitely a strong selling point.
I am talking about the ability to record one's life.
There is something very compelling about the platform that goes right along with it being built on top of a blockchain. It has the ability to keep a record of my life.
If you are like most people, you want there to be a record of your life. That is why we love taking pictures and watching home movies about ourselves or our family.
Ideally that record would be recorded by others because of some profound difference that we made upon the world, but for most of us that likely won't be the case.
That is where keeping a record of our own life comes in.
Being built on a blockchain, Steemit.com has the ability to record all the little (or big) things about my life that I can look back on whenever I choose. It's my own digital memory bank.
There are currently many social media sites out there that provide that same benefit.
However, for me personally, I don't have any other forms of social media any longer. This is the only one that I have. Besides that, there is one distinct advantage that this one has over all the others:
This one saves all your data on the blockchain, forever.
It can't be altered or deleted or edited in any way (at least at this time). That means that many years from now I can go back and look through my posts and it will be like a walk down memory lane of all my trips with my family and my different fishing trips and basically all the events of my life that I chose to record here.
What makes it even more intriguing is that it will theoretically still be there for my kids or even my grandkids. That means that if some time in the future they want to learn about dear old grandpa (me) they can go through my blog and read about my life and what I was interested in or they can see what we looked like all those years ago.
For one thing, in the future it will make writing biographies a heck of a lot easier! ;)
The efficiency it provides is awesome!
Having everything stored in one place is a lot more efficient than keeping pictures in an album or a shoe box or even storing them on some other social media site as there is no guarantee they will still be there many years from now.
I can just search for my blog and bam, there is everything, I don't even need to be logged in or even need to be a member of steemit.com to read the articles or see the pictures. Something many other sites don't offer.
Also, if your account on one of the other social media sites were to be hacked, information could be altered and posts could be deleted. Making potential memories lost forever.
When all these life events are stored on a blockchain it makes for a great scrap book of one's life. That is one of the more sentimental values of the site in my opinion and something that I think has tremendous value that is often overlooked by many people. :)
What is your favorite aspect of Steemit or Steem?
Live well my friends!
