Peoples are hitting it big and telling their friends about steemit and making thousands of dollars on a single post.
Steemit is not run by a large start up firm and can make it’s own rules.
The Steem system is expandable as it says on steem.io, Social Media, Integrate Steem to give your users the opportunity to earn for their posts and their time on your site.
Steemit can break free from this as it is more tailored towards real free speech and a decentralized democratic system that is run by the members.
Facebook.....
Facebook is a well established user base around the world. Facebbok #1 social media platform used today with the most internet traffic of any site.
Facebook is already a prime surveillance tool for our government and will continue to be run with the supervision of the government more than we may realize.
Facebook owns multiple data centers around the world to power its massive user base.
With the largest traffic source of any website facebook is able to generate huge amounts of revenue from advertisers and at the same time give it’s advertisers a very targeted user base to choose from based on what people have indicated as their likes and user habits.