I know we all try to compare Steemit with other social medias counting their cons and pros. But I would like to talk about another Steemit aspect.
Say, you open an account on Facebook. What do you do the first? Try to find your friends/relatives/known persons by first/last names, email addresses, what ever. Every time you hope you would find there your classmate, friend, in other words already known for you person . Further you would find friend of friends, kins of friend and so far.
In regular social medias we come to contact with others using our already developed social capital, relying on already created connections. After finding all necessary people we usually start to concentrate on ourselves, posting about our own life and collect likes. We came with already created connections and then we would find a few more.
Opposite, on Steemit you come as a newborn, without any connections with others. Fine, if you would already have few friends here, but majority came here without them and explored Steemit world themselves. We were as kids exploring, connecting, trying a new and investigating unknow Steemit world.
We came alone here to grow up and repeat our regular life steps/stages to a Steemit life: exploring, learning, studying, developing skills and making a career. We, on Steemit, constantly work from inside to outside: creating something, give it to others and developing new and new connections, growing together.
So, the Steemit gives us more real life lessons than other platforms and I'm really glad for these.
