Reading this makes my heart sing. I feel like I am a basic white girl coming over from Facebook. I am now using (mostly, of course) HIVE pretty much exclusively. And I am getting better at switching my attention here, consuming content here, and getting my news here. It is a paradigm shift. I feel this investment here. Yes, an investment in HIVE, sure. It’s bigger than that though. It feels like an investment in myself, in my work, in something that I feel is worth something.
Why can Facebook make a profit off of me and my consumption of their media site. On those sites I did at one point think — “oh it’s free”. But it’s not. Everything has a cost and eventually the more I understood, the more used I felt.
I know that the real investments come from when you deposit paper dollars and turn them into HIVE. I am just writing and curating right now. And it’s just a really simple process I feel like anyone can do, eventually.
Do you see HIVE as the way of the future of social media? I know how early this is. It’s early. But I feel this power inside this place. I know I am not the only one.
I think if people evaluated how they spent their time and what value it generates, they would top using most social media completely in favor of places like Hive - if they did reflect, that is.
Yeah I do, whether it is Hive or something else, I can't say, but the potential is definitely here.