Each and every time the subject of steemit and facebook comes up, its always in context of competition. You get to read and hear things like “steemit is the new facebook”, “steemit will do to facebook what facebook did to myspace”..All this from Steemians ofcourse rooting for steemit to surpass facebook in time to come and be the number one social network in the globe. We would all love that to happen right? And it can happen because as they say “ anything is possible”. Competition is good, it inspires and lets an individual or group of individuals aspire and stay focused to achieve a particular goal.
However have you ever stopped to ponder how BIG a facebook steemit/steem partnership would be? And what this would do to steem as a cryptocurrency? If steemit inc could somehow get to cuddle up with facebook. sometimes getting in bed with and riding on the back of the competition is more beneficial.
Facebook is the biggest social network on earth right now and there is no disputing that. With up to 2 billion active users/ month, THAT IS HUGE, and now also taking into consideration facebook owns whatsapp and instagram, both subsidiaries of facebook having massive patronage, that probably increases that figure significantly.
Steemit is young, just about a year and a half old and going by 
I think instead of steemit seeing facebook as a competition and vice versa, they should find a way to partner up using the smt platform when it launches, 
Ultimately Steemit and Facebook can and will survive side by side
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