Hello Steemers, early adopters of the actual Facebook killer social network!
Several years ago, the question regarding to advantages and preferences of social network that will leave Facebook out of date occupied my mind. As a matter of fact, the answer is quite plain: Facebook has made one apt thing before everyone else – for the first time, one’s culture, habit and personal identity have been created and set up to online platform.
The idea of publishing, making visible and presenting one’s culture, habits, interests and personal identity to online platform differentiated Facebook from other online social networks of that time. Thereunto, people of Facebook hastened “social life” by connecting people and developing social circles faster than ever before. Nevertheless, what Facebook represents today is (to great extent) different from its initial concept. At the present time, it is a large global database of habits, personalities, images and videos of 2 billion people living on Earth. Daily stream of information and creativity from almost half of the world’s population is pouring into their data centers. What attracts one’s attention is that Facebook users have access to data and creativity of other Facebook users, but they don't possess it, while Facebook itself owns their proper value. This could be one of the main reasons of Facebook’s immense strength, since that kind of strength and power is unprecedented in human history.
"It's free and always will be."
... until people realize that their personal uniqueness among all other beings, the thing that distinguishes a person - creativity, has very tangible value even if expressed only in form of a tweet. And when they realize it, there will be loads of people coming to this place (Steemit) and starting to express their creativity.
The most successful companies will be the ones that harness creator instincts, and the biggest winners will be the companies who harness the smallest creative acts. More people watch YouTube than post videos because creating a video is work. More people read blogs than write them because long-form writing is a hassle. Meanwhile, the telegraphic sentences of tweets, texting, and Facebook updates are becoming ubiquitous acts of creator haiku. And everyone can scribble a few words to compose a Google search, which is why Google dwarfs other
creator companies.
There will eventually be a company that dwarfs Google. It will grow — click by click.
