Now I am sure you are aware by now (as you are using steam to view this) that steem is a social media site popularised by the fact that it pays for it's content. But for someone who is new to Steem, it can seem like a maze of words and will make completely no sense!
Introduction:
For my first day on Steem I was completely riddled by the various buttons and functions it has to offer; but sure enough after reading through a few guides that I found in forums and on the website I was pretty read up. (or at least I though I was) Then I went to make my first post... my options for rewards were.
Rewards:
Decline Payout, Default(50% / 50%) and Power Up 100%. Now I don't know about you, but Power up sounds Awesome!! I slammed down on that button, with no idea of it's function other than I would get 100% of something! That is good, right?
My story:
Next came my story, prepackaged in a word document as I was super eager to get on this site!! Ctrl-v! Boom, my words flooded the page, I selected 5 random words that went well with my story and in a rampage of sheer adrenaline I clicked post.
It was here that I realised I needed an image to go with this. I rushed onto my preferred editor, Photoshop. Copied the first image I could find on google, aligned the different filters to what I thought was absolute perfection and Ctrl-V'd it onto my page.
After 5 Mins
I came back in a flurry after 5 minutes of my post being up, expecting some 1,000 people to have commented and voted on my post; the truth was only one person had seen it. (and that was me) To my disappointment I was not this trending national superstar that I had envisioned for myself but in fact absolutely no-one. I checked frantically all throughout the evening but to no avail! Saddened I watched lots of tutorials, trying to identify the mistake that had held me back. There was no mistake only the fact that I was not a whale. (no not an actual whale, as interesting as it would be!)
Be sure to post about your first experience
Did anyone else have a similar experience or am I just rather dumb?