Is Steemit going to make Facebook BURN?

Yes, I am the one who asked the Steemit panel during Hive account@steemfest 2 if Steemit is the social media that will make Facebook vanish!

In exact words, from a video Hive account@themonetaryfew took of me (but you can't see me really well, so I'm just going to quote) my question was:

'My question is not technical at all, it's very theoretical, none of us can predict the future, and it focuses on the social media aspect of Steemit. Also the answer is clearly very personal, maybe I should get an answer from everyone of you. DO YOU THINK STEEMIT IS GOING TO BE THE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT WILL CAUSE THE DEATH OF FACEBOOK, CONSIDERING THE GROWTH OF THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF?' [there was a mumbling from the audience and the panel at that point ;) ]

So, in other words, is that wake up call Steemit?

photo via 9gag.com

Some of the developers answered immediately 'yes!' but Hive account@sneak elaborated a bit more by saying that [again, my video is really bad - I'm only a photographer, not a videographer unfortunately!!] he thinks 'they serve different markets but the Steemit platform absolutely stands a really good chance of replacing these traditional one to 7 billion broadcast media because all the others are centralized.'

As they all agreed on, Facebook profits from you - you are the product, whereas in the Steem Eco System you profit from your work.

This reminded me of this picture I took at the LX Factory while visiting the Art Exhibition of SteemFest (Art at SteemFest) with Hive account@themonetaryfew and Hive account@mirjamsvideos :

At a small chat I had with Hive account@ned later on (who I got the impression that he doesn't like comparisons like that...), I did agree that probably the audience are indeed different, but if Steemit keeps growing as fast, then this might not be an issue anymore. I mean, yeah, sure, I use messenger as most people, to communicate with friends and family, but I think that if everyone of them had Steemit I would never use Facebook EVER again. So, my personal opinion here, as a consumer and a user and not as a developer clearly, is that as it expands, the audience/market might change as well.

As I have mentioned before, several times, I'm a newbie. To crypto, to Steemit, to everything that includes all that. But the way I see it (ok, a little bit influenced by Hive account@creutzy and Hive account@themonetaryfew who are more into all that than me) Cryptocurrencies are the Future of our Economy which makes Steemit the Future of all Social Media. Again, we can't predict the future, and I'm not some expert - I'm just offering a humble, personal opinion. But the way this thing is going, probably it's not totally out of place ;)

We had incredible fun at SteemFest2, but it wasn't all about the fun. It was incredible to hear most of the developers, including Hive account@sneak, Hive account@justinw and Hive account@roadscape and of course the one and only Hive account@ned sharing their views and chatting with all of us! Thank you guys!!!

From Hive account@ned's latest talk during SteemFest

As I said on a recent previous post of mine...WELCOME TO STEEMLAND - the Land of Steem, quality blogging and original content. It is amazing to be here, COME JOIN US!

https://steemit.com/steemit/@meanmommy33/welcome-to-steemland

Take more people, be you, create, write, talk... Steem on! And don't forget to smile!

Screenshot from my iPhone SE when reading Alice in Wonderland...