Yes, today is my Steem-Birthday, I just got notified in a comment by 
One year already. What a rush! :-)
And... what has given me Steemit after a year of being involved in the community? It's a question I can ask myself right now and many things come to my mind.
I do not talk about "material" things like Steems or SBDs just in case someone was already thinking about that :-P , of course these two have always been a plus but I do not mean that. I speak of things like "Knowledge" for example. After a year of writing and having to investigate the topics on which I am going to write I have realized that I have acquired a lot of new knowledge. Things that I did not even think I could ever know or interest in knowing about. There is too all that technological knowledge that comes when you are in a bloggers community with many developers and programmers around. Also Bitcoin, Alt-Coins, politics, economy, kitchen Recipes, the latest conspiracy story of the moment and more, Steemit is very variedy.
But there's something that Steemit has given me after all this year and is something that I really appreciate more than anything in the world. And this is friends and good connections with many people. Unlike other social networks, Steemit has the quality of transforming itself from a "Virtual" Network into a "Real" Network. I have been able to verify it, first when participated in the SteemFest 1 and after that in all the different meetings I have had, casual or not, with other Steemit users. The familiarity with which these encounters happen is something out of the ordinary. Familiarity in the sense of how people interact although it is the first time they see each other. As if they had known forever. It's such a nice feeling! And the best thing is that re-encounters happen quickly. I am telling you, the connections are real.
And what should/do I have to do now after a year?
Well, simply continue sharing stories, dreams, illusions and adventures with all of you here and to fulfill 2, 3 and also 25 more years in Steemit, the best "Real" Social Network in the world.
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