Yesterday was a busy day for me,from Surulere I went to Festac to see a friend and from Festac to Iyana Ipaja. On my way to Iyana Ipaja,I experienced this huge traffic. I was travelling alone so was kind of bored, since we still had a long way to go, I brought out my phone and started steeming. I was so carried away by the beautiful articles on my feed,I didn't notice that the guy beside me had been spying on my phone. I was on the fourth article when he asked me if it was an app.
"No it isn't " I replied and continued steeming. "what is it? I saw something like Tribalism in Nigeria " he asked. {"It's non of your business oga,face your front! }"
Hahahaha,of cause I didn't say that. It hit me that the guy has interest in articles and it's an opportunity for me to spread the gospel of steemit in 
I gave him a summary of steemit, he was super excited. He told me that he loves research and he has a lot of his work that is just laying somewhere,he had never heard of steemit and has a lot of friends that would dance to this,he wish he heard it earlier. We exchanged numbers and I promised to assist him with further info. We finally got to our destination, highlighted from the bus and found that we were going to the same place. He helped me with my heavy bag ~gentle man~, until we saw a bike man. We entered the same bike, he was grateful as told him more exciting things about steemit and @Euronation,a team that I belong to.
He dropped from the bike before me,when I got to my destination,I gave the bike man money and he said that the gentle man paid for me,I didn't even notice.
WHAT I LEARNT FROM THIS
On getting home, I had a flashback on our discussion and I figured out a whole lot of things.
Steemit awareness is poor
There are lot of people out there that would love to key in but haven't heard about steemit.
Our main target should be students
WHY I SAID STEEMIT AWARENESS IS POOR
I am known as a writer on Facebook and I make friends with writers. Until the day I joined steemit,I never heard or saw anything about it on Facebook.
I belong to ~pens club~ in my school, we write and try to find means to improve our writing skills and earn from writing, no one ever brought up steemit.
I have asked friends,coursemates and people I know that write well if they know about steemit, ~none of them does~
I made a post on Facebook concerning steemit,was expecting fellow steemians to come in and drop their username so we could follow each other but none did cause they know nothing about it, the response I got was from people asking me what it's about via inbox.
WHY I THINK STUDENTS SHOULD BE THE MAIN TARGET
The guy I talked about in the beginning of this post said he wish he knew about steemit while he was in school, he would shared things he learnt in school there and would never run out of ideas,also it would have helped him earn without having to work outside school.
Steemit accepts only original work and encourages creativity, all these I believe would be easily passable for a student.
Students spend more time with their phone than others.
WHAT PART CAN WE PLAY
As members of steemit, we should step up our game in preaching the steemit gospel. Someone told you about steemit,tell someone else. Even if you discovered steemit on your own,it is still up to you to make other key in. If among all the members on steemit, there is no one that you know personally then you are a steemit pegan.
Let's make use of Facebook and other social media, Steemit should be as popular as Instagram and the rest,we can add each other on Facebook and help do the preaching.
Inform all the writers you know,friend,relative,enemy,just keep spreading.
Get a Steemit shirt
- Support programs like SIN (check out
for more info), Stach-hub (check out @Stach for more info) and so on.
Let's join hands and make steem mining an occupation for all
Thanks for reading, you can share more ideas on how we can preach the Gospel of steem