It's the first because we own it!
Even a minnow's share is infinitely more than your stake in the old ones.
Facebook and Snapchat would rather own you, and they practically do if you keep handing them your precious content!
Socialism is where everybody owns everything right? So shouldn't the Social Network itself be owned by the people?
The key to being the LAST social network is if your Steem profile becomes your true identity. You can only have 1 true identity and the network that defines it will rule all!
Facebook failed in this regard and will ultimately die as a result.
Can Steem eclipse even government registration for what people consider their true identity?
One thing's for sure: this is the best ever so far! So let's all succeed together and say we were there at the start!!!
Upvoting because I believe you are sincere in your belief and it's a nice sentiment. However you are completely wrong.
Yes we own steems and steems give you power here, but they are not shares per se. The developers and owners/whales can do whatever they like at any time and there is nothing we can do about it. We are not owners, we are more like employee moderators.
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Furthermore, this is hardly the first social network to be owned and operated by the users even if what you said was true.
Back before your parents were old enough to know where babies came from, there were these things called Bulletin Board Services or BBS's.
BBS's were the first real social networks, followed quickly by services like Usenet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Usenet was and still is wholly owned by the people who run the nodes. In fact steem for all it's innovations is still structured exactly like usenet in so many regards, I realize that @Dan must've been hanging out in alt groups with the rest of us greybeards.
Thanks for the upvote and the history lesson but I don't think I'm so wrong as you say.
First of all I didn't say shares, I said share, ie portion and stake. Both of those are correct as it pertains to Steem. The stake means being levered to the success of the platform and your share is simply the portion of the overall pie that you own. Here it's nonzero and on Facebook et al it's zero.
I won't debate the properties of BBS and Usenet with you although I do have a passing knowledge of them. When we talk about "Social Networks" most people only go as far back as MySpace but the reality to me is that Steemit has effectively redefined and enriched the term by giving everyone a financial stake in the network and one another.
Also you didn't touch on the part about identity which to me is the far more salient point.
I hope you'd agree we're taking part in history here, whatever the semantics.
Hope to see you round!
Minnow here, just fishin for upvotes.
This is very good news brother
Actually very deep. I like :)
Thanks! Your words of encouragement help :)
I wrote this article about a week ago about the conventional social network not being so social as their names. I agree with you the Steem profiles will reliable place where people will be willing to share something original. Here is my original post https://steemit.com/steemit/@chhabiz/conventional-social-media-are-they-really-social-why-is-steem-power-going-to-work
Thanks for the link! I will definitely check it out and leave a comment on yours. Cheers
Interesting theory and replies - all points noted for future reference when as a minnow and my post dont't make anything like the trending ones, I can take comfort in my share is infinitely more than my input to the others....