29,000 Likes on Facebook. Financial Reward? $0.

I saw this pop up on my Facebook today:

29,000 likes. That's a lot of attention. Facebook sold that attention to advertisers and didn't share any of the value with me (for posting stuff) or to my Facebook followers (for liking stuff).

In contrast, Steemit rewarded me 117 Steem last week just for voting on content. This curation reward is based on my vested shares in the system. I was also rewarded 498 Steem and 1171 SBD (Steem Backed Dollars) for my posts.

At current prices ($2.05 for Steem, $1.62 for SBD) that's $239 for liking stuff and $2,926 for posting stuff in ONE WEEK.

I keep pointing this stuff out to people on Facebook in hopes of getting their attention. Sure, some will come here for the money, but it's more about the value of their attention and how it's not being properly rewarded. The share holders and the users may not have the same incentives. Here on steemit, we're all users and shareholders.

I laughed quite a bit when Hive account@falkvinge was the only one to initially like my post.

Maybe that means we're doing something right here.

Thanks again for all your witness votes. We've moved up a position to 34!

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Luke Stokes is a father, husband, business owner, programmer, and voluntaryist who wants to help create a world we all want to live in. Visit UnderstandingBlockchainFreedom.com

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