Hello everyone!
So, today I spent some time on my Facebook feed.
I am still forced to use it, as a it is the only way to communicate with some of my friends. I've been sharing my Steemit posts on there, and sharing my experience on Steemit with my friends/followers, but most people seem to be glued to Facebook.
Spending over an hour browsing my feed, with 4,333 friends worth of content, I realised that there really was something missing.
- Posts with no reference.
- "I'm so depressed, no one loves me" posts with no explanation as to why they even feel that way.
- Models and bands sharing content, and not gaining any useful support or funding.
- People liking things they don't actually care about.
- Nothing I can even bring myself to care about.
- Any quality posts lost in the stream of random pictures and bullshit.
- Blue pill posts. That reminds me of my favorite of the day... a video circulating on a hold that women should know how to do, in order to escape the clutches of a rapist. In other words, appropriating rape culture. And, it wasn't even legit anyways. The man didn't even use his arms at all in the video. He was just giving her a hug >_>
I see posts like this way too often on Facebook, amidst a bunch of ads, and fake-ass news.
There was also another thing lacking, that was important to me.
On Facebook, you cannot visually see someone's reputation. You don't know what experiences other users have had with that person. You don't know whether it's a good idea to accept their friend request of not. That is one thing I like about Steemit. The ability to see whether someone is trash-posting or quality-posting without having to scroll through their entire feed. You can look at how long they've been around, and compare it to their reputation.
On Facebook, they might be posting My Little Pony pictures...
but have beaten the shit out of someone, or stalked someone somewhere down their feed. Or maybe, they just only post spam. You just can't tell who they are, or who they might be, or see what their reputation on the site is.
So, all I have to say, is Steemit all the way.
I have loved the community on here, and felt a more personal bond with them, more than I have with most people who are my friends on Facebook. It feels like people on Steemit take the time to post a quality comment on your content, rather than just spam likes that never make a difference. People feel a reason to be human on here, as they get rewarded for it.
On Facebook, you just take the FB pills, and stay drugged.
Run socialmediarobot.exe
So, I'll keep trying to talk the friends I care about into converting their social religion to Steemit.
And you guys keep being amazing in the meantime.