The new paradigm shift is amazing, but like the rest of all good things you have to treat it with care and there are always too sides of a coin. Put everything aside steem is by far the most advance BC for social media. That is why we are working hard on building our photography marketplace on top of steem and i hope that in near future we will be able to show the first results and attract even more people to steemit at the same time.
as of right now, steem as a token still lacks some utility for the price to skyrocket, but our development on BeScouted will give steem the utility properties it needs so much and hopefully with the growth of our photography platform increase the demand of steem multifold.
So let's just all work together and maintain a transparent and fair community where everybody gets paid by talent and effort.
As for facebook or other current centralized platforms, it is natural that they are saying this, as there is nothing they can do to protect their current business as social media is moving into different direction lead by the steem BC.
Have a great day everybody and full steem ahead!