Hello everyone!

answering questions about steem on quora, clearing the doubts on peoples mind about the blockchain
Wonderful times we are having, for the past week or so, steem has been closing in on the $1 mark, and SBD has even had a high of close to $2 maybe even reaching it at some point(I cant really say, I havent been monitoring it).

On the platform, a lot of dramas has occurred, from flagging situations, to undelegations(and redelegations), to fights against bots to supposedly scamming intents.

What I am trying to say is that the platform, for all intent and purposes is alive with so much discussions and situations right now, and believe it or not, its all going to work out at the end for the good of the steem blockchain and the steemit community as a whole.

That aside, the situation in which I found myself today prompted me to write this post. I am not an especially good writer, infact writing is one of the things I try to avoid whenever possible. Before discovering steemit, I barely had time to post on facebook or twitter, despite having accounts on both platform for years.

The only thing I went to do in quora was to read up on the question and answer sessions that were delivered there.

Time, is of the essence

image gotten from pixabay.com
So it happened that in the morning after my usual routine of cleaning the house and checking up on my blog, I got a call from a friend about going out to get a few items in a nearby restaurant.

Let me ask a question right now. Say on average, how much time do you spend on Facebook, and "what" do you do there?

Hold that thought.

I and this friend of mine got to a resturant called foodland to catchup on old times and discuss some crypto business possibilities(more on that in another post).
said friend is already on steemit as Hive account@ujaykel, posting is what I find difficult to tell him to engage in

What I noticed around was the amount of people taking pictures, replying texts on Facebook messenger, the all important instagraming and snapchating.

Unfortunately I had to leave in a hurry as my cat at home hadn't eaten anything, and I had a load of work to curate from Africans here.

This small encounter however, made me realise that we as Nigerians, Africans, humans, have become obsessed with trivial things, online things, social media things.

See like it or not, facebook, twitter, even steemit, is a business idea when stripped bare, and when these business ideas were created, they wernt created to be run as charity.

There are many motivational books that will tell you that time=money, and they are absolutely right.
Going back to the question earlier, while I cannot give a reasonable figure, I can give an illustration into the amount of time(money) we waste on socials.

Suppose for instance , you spend on average, 1hr a day on twitter, 1hr on Facebook, and 30 mins a day on other socials(reddit, quota etc).
2.5hrs per day, x 300 days(margin of 65 days given for things like no data, poor network, etc x 10 years
At the end of a ten year period, you would have spent a total amount of;

312 Days wasted, just under a year or so. Small, but then calculate the amount of time sleeping, eating,pooping, playing etc and you would literally have spent years not doing anything

Scary right?
In fact, if Steem weren't connected to a blockchain with which you can earn rewards, Steemit would simply be a giant time waster as well.

A start-up company is capable if making above $100k in that one year you wasted if line day for day.

Live for the steem

But steemit isn't just a website, it is more than that, it is the frontend by which we engage with the steem blockchain.

I am no economic student, but I do know that the future of any currency depends on the people using it.
Simply put, the more trust a people have in a currency, the more its power rises.

There was a time in which we used cowry and other materials for transactions, then the paper money, today, we are transitioning into a new age, the age of digital assets and currency.

Bitcoin is a very good example of the power that is to come. For all its worth, bitcoin hitting 10k isn't even the beginning of things, merely a shadow.

Now back to what I was saying. Steemit is an economy. Money is transfered from one hand to another, businesses are run daily, among other things.

Motivational books will tell you to busy yourself at all times with things that will be productive, that will help in the future.

In that case, busy yourself with all things steemit. When online but not on steemit, make moves to promote steemit, paint it in a "true" light(no lying just to bring unnecessary people in).