My #steemit feed has been filled all weekend with the hashtag #deletefacebook with everyone jumping on board the the "Get the fuck off Facebook Now" bandwagon, and I have to ask..... why now? And if "now", then where will all these exfacebookers run to for their daily (hourly) social media fix?
Facebook is stealing your data, warping your news feed to only show you content that they want you to see, selling your (social media) soul to the highest bidder, and filling your wall with troll posts by political players who've been allowed to infiltrate and spin-doctor the on going social rhetoric across Facebook...... So what else is new?
Folks, this isn't "News". This has been a well established fact for YEARS..... so..... why NOW? There is an agenda at play here and it's up to us to figure out what it is. Suckerface sold off hundrends of millions of dollars worth of Facebook Share/stock just before their price/value began to plummet- which means he KNEW it was coming. Which says to me that he was part of the plan to begin with. When talking heads like Elon Musk jump on a viral bandwagon, I immediately have to stop, look around, and ask "What the fuck is really going on here?".
And the next question I want to ask- and it's purely a rhetorical question, because I know there is no answer for it:
How to get the ExFacebook users to sign up for and STAY on Steemit?
It's all fine and dandy to push out a ton of articles/posts with the hashtags #deletefacebook and #joinsteemit, but it's a non-workable situation that isn't going to happen. Facebook users may sign up for Steemit and may even fall for the "how to become popular on Steemit in 5 easy steps" posts that proliferate Steemit,..... for a few weeks maybe. But they won't stay.
As I outlined in my article "How to Become a Steemit Whale....", about the reason that facebookers aren't staying on Steemit:
The REAL reason they are fading away is because they've busted their balls to put out great content....and that content got 5 views,..... maybe 10. And NOTHING is more depressing to a writer/artist/musician than to put your heart and soul into a piece and then watch it sit there gathering dust in a corner, because no one can find it, let alone admire it and maybe, just maybe, reward it.
Steemit will never hold onto 99% of the ExFacebook users who are looking for a new social media platform to jump into. Why? Because it is a 1%'ers game. Either you are a "Have" or a "Have not", a "Whale" or a "Minnow".
And as I said in the video, until someone comes along and either FIXES Steemit, or creates another brilliant platform like it, but with an even playing field.... The exfacebookers will either move on to search for a platform that better suits them, or go crawling back to Facebook where at least they know what to expect.
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PS: I have just launched the new UnFuckers Unite membership website, and you're all invited!! I will be archiving the UnFuckers Unite Facebook group in the next few weeks: https://www.unfuckersunite.com/
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://www.rts.earth/2018/03/deletefacebook-how-to-get-exfacebookers-to-stay-on-steemit/
We all should support the #deletefacebook tag.
The way things are right now with facebook has been beneficinary for them but not for other people. Selling your data, store your data etc. It must stop and steemit is certainly going to help archieving that goal. We will live in a world with social media to become more interesting than ever before. Mark my words....
no argument from me my friend- yes, we should all delete facebook, and change the face of the "social Media" world into one where equality and and even playing field are the Norm.
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I agree with hastag #deletefacebook, I can only invite thousands of facebooker to settle in steemit, but who will be the constructor for them as a newbie here ...???
among them is very much a blog author and poetry which has great content, very unfortunate when they have to buy a vote from the bot for a content very good.
We all knew it for years, that's right, but they let a 3rd company give the data to a 4th company. and that's what I and the rest of the world are trying to figure out. how did Facebook let this happen?
The one thing I know for a fact that is Facebook will stay here forever and will forever be the biggest social media. no matter what will happen.
It's sad because I got F a lot by them, but what can we do...
They lost 17% of their value but I don't think they are even worried, there is no reason for them to be.
They have Whatsapp + Instagram as well. but it doesn't really matter anyway because Facebook will stay as big as it is.
It's the human nature to forget, this whole story will be forgotten within a month or so.
Darlin.... we've known that for YEARS!! and I literally mean years, plural, as in at least 5 years. How did facebook let it happen? they didn't "let it happen". Facebook was set up to do EXACTLY that.
hence my question: Why NOW?
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...With regard to that subject, Even you with a headstart and friends already on the platform have to be specifically searched a lot of days.
I love Steemit! That said, I have friends that are fairly successful every day people who have really interesting projects, podcasts, and community organizing experience that I won't even begin to invite over unless I can take the time and also have the SP to be able to help get them off the ground... AFTER Paying to get them in in a reasonable amount if time. They are too busy to waste their time, and I would think with being so busy they would also get discouraged easily trying to get their content seen.
Nothing is free and easy about trying to make changes in the world with how utterly fucked it has become... via the banks and corporations. However, if Steemit were intended to be fair it seems people would not have to search through so many circle jerks and stroke so many egos in an attempt to get seen only to have followers that don't interact, or few followers that do. (I've read a LOT of complaints!) I've been fortunate enough to find some really good people that I like on here, after tons of hours spent. I'm able to do so because I have already spent years building up projects that I feel are relevant to the platform, work from home, and have a kid in homeschool that does very well without a lot of extra help from me. Not everyone has that.
The regular FB user is used to reposting content made by others for likes, or to share info because you can do that there. Steemit being a paying platform, most don't do that here, and if they do they will only succeed if they are upvoting themselves. It takes a TON of time to get anywhere on this platform. People are already busy trying to figure out how to keep the bare necessities, so this is definitely not the solution I would like to see it be in it's current form.
I'm suspicious of who is behind all of the crypto movement from the word go anyway, but there are definitely people on here that will only upvote trendy, light fluffy, content and I'm not sure if that is because they are delegated by people who would prefer to keep it that way or just because that is really all they care about. I like light fluffy content sometimes myself... but there are only a few that I have seen that are powerful enough to make a difference that will take the time to really look for the value in people's content when it is not light and fluffy. But there definitely are at least a few. I think it takes determination and a lot of help from the nether realms to have them find your content with the way things are designed.
Things would definitely need to change for FB users to come here and stay. There are some pretty well known great thinkers with awesome materials that have been trying to get in and they cannot seem to get in. I'm not sure if they are willing to pay to get in. I'd help them if I could but I am not in that sort of position atm, so...
I'm really thankful to have gotten in here thanks to you, and your friend! I'll stick around because I like it, but it isn't going to change the financial world for everyone overnight that's for sure. I've been around a while, and around the block.. and I don't have the time, nor the patience to be the problem in the world and 'get by' through ass kissing and ego stroking, but I am willing to work to network with authentic Steemians because I really hate FB and did from day one. I only go back because that is where everyone is, and refuses to leave because they share friends and family pictures and so forth. Steemit does not have that social aspect, but they claim to be working on it... we'll see. There are far fewer trolls on here because of the way it is set up... that I really like!
I do agree it is set up like wall street. It's because the mindset that has been programmed into people is that that system works... but only if the 'right' people are in charge... and now they are 'in charge' so they are emulating what has been done before. I've said a few times this past week or so, the changes are going to have to come from within people on a fundamental level first. Until that happens people will just repeat the examples they have grown up with nomatter how well intentioned they may be.
In my last chapter in this rediculously long book I've just written, LOL... I had an odd (in your kind of way 'odd') experience the other night while contemplating a post I had just read that was about issues on Steemit like censorship and control of the platform, and whether it would ruin it or not. A timeline jump sort of thing happened, where in one timeline the lights were on and in the other they were not. It happened just as I had decided that people are going to get what they resonate with, including on Steemit. Like the timeline jump was a vibrational shift that confirmed my thoughts! If people view it negatively they will definitely have issues... If they have a positive attitude it can work for them, at least to some degree. So it's just like everything else you discuss... creating your reality with intention instead of allowing yourself to become so frustrated that you sink yourself. (Even though there is definitely a very stacked deck. I look at it like Ben probably would... Whatever happens, I'm growing food... so... ;)
I'll be over to join your website pretty soon then! Glad that you've gotten it up and running!!! Thats awesome! Have a great day Dani!!!
thanx darlin! I'm looking forward to seeing you over on UnFUckers!
love d
Good post sister. Thank you for your information sharing
Yeah i've gotten a few to join steemit, but most have not stayed. Still working on just making steemit work for me, so i can share what i learn. But so far its just pay to play.
BINGO!! exactly!
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Yup, when I hear all this hysteria it really makes me wonder who the fuck is still using face book?
Now facebook caught red handed.This is the high time to invite people in steemit.If they comes to know that they will get paid for their content i think they must join in.All the steemian should invite his known people to steemit.I have already convinced few of my friend joining in steemit.Some of them already joined and some of them promised me to join.Thanks for the post.
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Good post thanks for sharing
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