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How Steem(it) changed/changing your life?
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good-karma
I come from a country that deteriorates economically every day, what I earn here in my country is not enough to buy the basic things I need, which made me start looking for benefits online, and that is not very stable and makes 3 months that I entered Steemit and found a stability for my life, not only did I find economic stability, but I also found really amazing and dazzling people with thousands of stories to read every day and a place to express my ideas. The stability cost me a lot of time and since I arrived here, nothing could be better. Believe me Steemit has brought peace to my life. Steemit allows me to travel, know cultures, meet people and thousands of things just by reading the post of amazing people. π
I have been dealing with depression for the last year and it hasn't been easy, sometimes I just feel like ending everything and just rest. but ever since I found steemit I have been feeling a little better everyday by reading about the life of other people and their problems helps a lot to not feel alone, I believe this platform can help people like myself feel better because we can talk about our problems and people will help us, this platform hasn't changed my life yet but little by little is making me feel better and i hope one day i may be able to overcome this depression and just be happy, hope you guys are having the best time of year cause tis the season to be jolly fa-la-la-la-la πππ π»
As a farmer, I know my worth, it doesnβt matter how it looks at the time of cultivation, it might not look that admiring at this initial stage, but I understand the underlaid process of my cultivation.
Steemit is the fertile land, and steem is that valuable crop!
Change is coming my way, because anything that builds hope in a man can also prolong a lifespan.
Steemit is changing my life because I didn't use Facebook or any other social media for more than 5 years. Steemit was something that peaked my interest and that I wanted to check out and since then I have been hooked and it feels awesome to be connected again.
The reason why I gave up on Facebook is because it seemed to be more about bragging than sharing; "Look at me I went to the most expensive restaurant, look at me i have traveled to more places than you, look at me I am always smiling in all the photos I am the happiest person in the world" ! I just got tired of it. Everyone trying so hard to look so perfect.
The reason why I joined Steemit is not only because it sounded cool that you can make money while blogging but because people are trying to write good useful material that can actually contribute and make people more aware of who you really are and what you are really about, as opposed to Facebook post that is many times a fake fasad that will make you depressed because you think everyone is living on cloud nine.
So to sum up Steemit had allowed me to be connected to the world again and to be able to read quality posts from people made all over the world. In the same time of course it's allowed me to share my perspective and my passions which is putting a smile on my face whenever I get a nice comment from a fellow Steemian :)
100% mate π
Steemit can change your life in either a good or bad way. Which way depends on whether you let Steemit control you or vice versa.
When I first started I was watching all my posts like a hawk, and getting really frustrated when no one viewed or upvoted them. Mobile phone in hand, I was constantly refreshing the screen, even though I had just done so 5 minutes ago.
Then I learnt to let go ~ NOT give up. I wrote about things that I enjoyed, I learnt to PS photos and make videos, I got involved in a project called Steemit Worldmap, I met people online from all corners from the world and read about their life, view and travels; then I went to my first Steemit meetup, jumping from the virtual to real world. I don't invest in crypto currency so I don't have a panic attack when Bitcoin goes up from 6k to 10k then back down to 9k. Everything I earn here (money and friends) is truly a bonus to me, something that I had not expected when I first started 5 months ago.
Most important of all, I learnt to enjoy and embrace Steemit. It is part of my life but it doesn't rule me.
As a Venezuelan, I can say that steemit gave me the hope that I had already lost, our country is experiencing difficult times since society and power have deteriorated our integrity as citizens, I work as a graphic designer and I earn little, with steemit I decide, I apply and I earn much more, it inspires me is a personal growth for me, I enjoy and share, I know new people, it is like the light at the end of the tunnel, I have hope and faith that with my publications in steemit I will raise to help my family , support my studies and spend a nice Christmas despite the circumstances may not have ham bread or our popular hallas for Christmas dinner, but for me the most important thing is to share with my family. We all think of the food as gifts, and today the Venezuelan is thinking about surviving, with nothing more to limit. Happy Christmas Eating, Value everything you have and love a lot. ππ
with steemit you can everything is the best community
It brings me into the world of cryptocurrency which I had been longing to learn about, but haven't get the reason to be in. I found that Steemit provides me with a purpose, a purpose to spread my thinking and passion of living to the others. Of course, this is done through writing which also one of the skills that I had long to practice. Previously, I only write like once per month and post it online, without much motivation. However, after being involved in Steemit, oh my! It elevates the experience to a whole new level. Besides thinking about how to write better, I can learn how to engage with people, utilize bots, involve in contests, initiate some movement, and many more! Most importantly, Steemit provides a platform for people to interact, which is different from making a personal blog and promote it from ground zero.
So, in a nutshell, Steemit changed my view on blogging, writing, socializing and also pushing my understanding of the advancement of blockchain technology. Special thanks to @good-karma for creating the mobile @esteemapp that enables me to connect to Steemit even though I am not with my laptop.
Steemit has changed my life in three ways:
it gives me a platform to inspire teachers and those who are teaching. I love writing about my profession as a teacher which has been getting a lot of bad reputation in many countries around the world.
it allows me to reflect and record my many teaching experiences. Helps me stay focused and thankful to seven years of teaching.
I generally do not feel like my work is good enough and seeing so many positive feedback from so many people has made me feel that often times, the greatest enemy to my self confidence and creativity is myself.
Steemit has made me a more confident person, a better teacher and it is also my first experience blogging and I am enjoying every bit of it.
"Quality thought with Quality content"
Steemit made us to Steam my mind. A well thought up process takes place before posting helping thereby our mind to do some exercise. A good place to explore and learn. A place to see different aspect of the world. A place to know the $crypto$.
Thanks to steemit and esteem, you both have provided me a meaning to do some quality works.
I have a typical happy friends and socializing, and all this time I find it hard to find my pleasure. I like being caught in a prison. In july 2017 I started to recognize steemit, slowly I found what I dreamed about for so long. At steemit I met many new people and every day I always get knowledge that I didn't have. I am very happy when I have the opportunity to share with my friends steemit from other countries. I am very grateful to steemit because I was also involved in the community. in our community sharing and mutual support for a lot of good. Steemit is a place that I have long dreamed of
My story to join steemit is quite interesting. I was added in a WhatsApp group of the steem community by some of my friends but for about 2 to 3 months I didn't give any attention to it and I thought it was like a ponzi scheme but when but one day when I was searching it on YouTube and I found many interesting videos out there and how this works then I thought I should give it a try and I immediately posted some of my 3D artworks but that didn't get a response here so I stopped it. But then I saw that I have received some delegation steem in my wallet, I wondered what it was and then I have searched it and got the idea how does it work so it was totally free and I was not going to to lose anything here. I started posting 3 to 4 posts one day and some people started upvoting my post and then I understood it better and better as my days with it passed and I really improved my art in these days because everyday I was making something new to post here and better each time.
Steemit has changed my life by giving me a way to get my friends and loved ones interested in cryptos. By having a real world use-case like steemit, it helps me better explain the value and purpose of the blockchain and cryptos in general to people who otherwise may not understand its value or purpose. Since then many of the people I have introduced to Steemit are actively using the site on a daily basis and are getting more and more interested in what cryptos have to offer. 2018 is going to be an exciting time for cryptos as the very start of the early adopter phase of growth is about to commence. Hang on guys, 2018 is going to be an interesting ride!
@good-karma
Steemit came like santa in my life as am a student and i wasn't doing any part time job for some extra money because my parents would not allow the same.so one day i came to know about steemit through a friend @mirhimayun and from right then am on steemit and am earning almost βΉ100 min... per day i.e βΉ3000 aprox. Per month i.e βΉ3000 aprox. Per month i.e βΉ3000 aprox. Per month for the things that i would have posted free on other site .
So steemit is my santa and i payout some money from it every month.thanks to steemit and thanks to @good-karma for @esteem and the auto voting bot.
Thank you all
@naseerbhat
The support and new friends here has helped me through my depression and I have found a new passion in photography that I didn't know I had! This also helps to get me out of the house taking pictires and being excited to share them, which helps to lift my mood :) Steemit is better than prozac! :D
Steemitis the platform for me now
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which has helped me to build my business when i am almost to shut it down.
it is just not steemit its a God In my life
Happy Holidays
I macke more photo, it improve y creativity and live
Well besides finally giving me a good enough reason to eradicate facebook out of my life for good, it has encouraged me to learn more about blockchain, incentivised me to write more about my intrests and I have met heaps of cool people.....
Steemit has opened my eyes to the crazy world of crypto. That alone will change my life forever.
I'm also loving expanding know creative knowledge by posting.
Steemit is a way of not being the puppet for massive social sites, like Facebook, that earns billions giving nothing back to its users that make all the profits possible in the first place. It's like being abused just for the fact that we are human and crave social interaction. Of course it's not direct abusement and people - at least seemingly - have the "choice" to use it or not. But was there really a choice before Steemit to use a social media that also gives something back to its users. At least I haven't heard of one.
On a deeper level for me it represents freedom and it's one way of potentially escaping the rat race we're guided and most of us are drift into.
Now, I don't despise people working on their jobs that they enjoy doing but personally I wan't to live a life in the future where my well being is NOT tied with having a job.
Facebook is junk and their blatant disregard for privacy, and their sneaky background antics are not the direction this world should be going. Thankfully a lot of these massive companies have gotten cocky with their monopolies over the years, thinking that there is no competition big enough to challenge their dominant position... but those companies are soon going to find out how obsolete they really are. Blockchain4Life!
Changes are coming and Steemit may very well bring one.
thanks for the information from @ good-karma for all steemian friends, I hope that posting @ good-karma is very useful.
steemit is a great platfrm where i learn mny thing on bitcoin get mny frnd n follower having fun on funny vedio like that its change my life i luv u steemit.
Steemit most popular and biggest social media platform to me. It change my life 100%. I earn some rewards from here and known good knowledge any topics. Before come to steemit i haven't know cryptocurrency market. But now I knew some of supporting forex trade markets. I can establish great partnerships from terrific steemians.
Absolutely steemit giving more delightful life to me. Thank you "STEEMIT" for changing my life.
Steemit has changed me completely. but not only me, but my entire family. thanks to steemit, and the ruling community, it was possible to increase the quality of life. The exchange with other cultures has led to an expansion of one's own horizon and to a higher respect for other people. For the use of time and energy, you get respect and recognition from the community.
@steemit is an amazing website. It changed my thinking philisophy. It helped me to understand different culture and meet great people. Thankyou steemit for providing such a platform where i meet brilliant intellegent, artistic people.Moreover i spend quality time here on this website. Keep sharing @good-karma Resteem & Upvoted for your great effort
Steemit has helped in me different ways
From Learning to Earning
From an Amatuer to an Expert in CryptoCurrency
From novice writer to an adept writer
For me, Steemit is a unique platform, I have never met such a different one, I learned about it at a difficult time for me, it became for me as a gift from heaven. There are a lot of good people here, for some it's a way to make some money, for others it's means to express oneself or to be known, others simply want to write, and some just look for a place to spend their time, but this is all society, and without society a person can not live. If we succeed, then we can earn a good income from this platform, and for it's awesome!
With a few months here in steemit, the first change I've notice in myself is the way I supposedly interacting with other people. At frist, I was like a kind of person who communicate others just like how communication runs supposed to be without knowing that they have their own way of expressing it and without minding that I might get entangle with someone but when I spent lots of time here, I am now interacting people with care using my mind and heart. Here in steemit, I've just learn that every people meet different satisfaction and every people has their own way of relieving knowledge and ideas to others. That's why every people I've met, I make sure that I meet their expectations.
First of all a great thanks to @ned for creating such a good platform where we can contact with different and creative mind.
Well if I speak about steemit than it has made a lot of changes in my life , using steemit is good than other social media platform.
** Thank you ππ and have a nice day**
My whole family has had financial problems since I was small, because of the debt, now at my 28 years after a life learning during my years of marriage I managed to understand how the world and its economy works, in recent years I dedicated myself to learn a lot about finance and the world of investing in the Internet, with uncertain steps through different websites that failed to provide me with the desired results, which even, I came to lose money.
But I didn't give up and I kept learning until I came to this wonderful community where I started to see the results I always wanted and never could get on other websites, now I see very real my dream of helping financially all my family, my parents, my brothers, my nephews, I am very happy because it is something that I want to do very much soon and steemit has changed my life because it has given me the means for such an important end that I want to do so much soon and steemit has changed my life... steemit is the best thing for me right now and soon it will be for my whole family!!
my morning is start with steemit i forget to used fb because in steemit i get lot of knowledge which i ever seen in any social media platfrm or any crytocurrency n get appriciated respect frm frnd it amezing for me change my life fully .
One thing I will tell... Whole life has been changed with building up relationship with the world and earning too...
When i come to the steemit before I used social media named Facebook. But currently I leave from Facebook and now maximum 17 hours in here steem.
Steemit changed my life more and more. Now I'm really interesting with cryptos and smart media tokens. Most of glorious persons meet from here. Also great beneficiary site. We can received more claims if we are genius. I also tried keep my reputation cleverly. It would be more profits.
Finally I told you that, Steemit now MY LIFE also MY WIFE.
I feel like my last reply in many ways touched on this already, but....
Steemit has inspired me to be a content creator.
Things I thought would be useless to attempt on other over saturated platforms, I feel have real opportunity here.
Steem itself introduced me to blockchain tech in general. It's shown me that the wild west opportunity once again exists. I've already created a steem storefront that shows off some of the amazing artists on steemit. You can check it out at steem.shop
I'm also in the process of building a really cool platform on the Steem blockchain, although that I'm keeping secret for now. π
Together, they have both introduced me to the chance to enjoy financial freedom and I'll never be able to thank them for that....so I will now...
Thank you Steem and steemit!
Myself and my family are truly thankful for the opportunities you've presented us.
Steemit has really helped me connect with my friend @Coriolanus we ere good friends before but now we find extra time to talk each day and the main point of conversation is usually Stemmit.
tldr; friendship!
Completely new to this, but it seems sweet as heck
I have just gotten into Steem, after reading up on crypto currencies in general. This will in fact be the very first thing i post, so i can't say how it has changed my life (yet).
More quality, less crap
However, i do see this as an extremely interesting way of creating great content. The steem program seem to create incentive for actually taking the time to produce quality content, which i see as very valuable. We have enough sites with crap content, that mainly focuses on bringing in the sponsorships (which is often understandable, they have to live too).
This way, is however much more interesting.
Therefore i hope to both gain access to, and create some valuable information from/ for my fellow steem users :)
Sharing ideas
I actually wanted to start a blog about a pretty weird bachelors project, that i will soon be starting up.
I am going to be growing a fake leather like substitute, made from bacteria. It will be environmentally friendly, pretty cool, and most importantly, really really weird. I'll be working with Kombucha, a Chinese fermented tea, which develops a layer of cellulose during its fermentation process.
This layer of cellulose can be used in a multitude of different ways, which i'll be experimenting with, and sharing. The internet is meant for sharing ideas, and i hope mine will be worth sharing.
Somewhat weird
When i found Steem, i saw it as an excuse for writing down my thoughts in a nice way. If i could share some knowledge, no matter how weird, i see this as a great. And it will be weird, weird as heck, the cellulose layer, or the "scoby", most of all resembles an Alien booger. That is at least according to my imagination of how an alien booger would look like.
All in all, this seems like a fun place to be, and i look forward to partake in some interesting discussions :)
Merry Christmas people!
Also, an important note, i find that steem could be an important facebook challenger. Where'as facebook makes money without giving the users anything in return, this seems way more respectable towards the community, so thank you for that.
truth is steemit has not really changed anything in my life, i do the same things, feel the same way and take the same steps everyday. Steemit has not had that impact in my life just yet, i'm still waiting for that moment. even though my friends love this platform and i know that writing here helped them in so many positive ways, somehow, i come here sometimes just to write a few words of something in my mind at the moment, not expecting any votes or comments, just to set words free.
@good-karma,
Steemit helps great connectivity to known more friends including great steemians. Still this moment I'm really addict to the steem.
"I can't live & stay without steemit"
Lot of activities, opportunities, contests, big knowledge experience received from steem. So please tell me how will i live without steem.
Trully words my friend
Discovering Steemit is like walking into a room and finding a huge jar full of CANDY!!! Each day I dig through the jar asking myself, "what do I feel like eating today?" Writing, sharing, encouraging, learning, so many things to do. Helping others while helping yourself grow. Discovering what's popular. I'm learning about crypto currency!!! Oh my! I could go on. Most of all, finding people like @good-karma, who challenge us to do more, to do good and share our light during this holiday season. Steemit, changing my life, one day, one experience at a time.
Before Steemit i was wasting my time on Facebook, Twitter and other platform. Now after i have joined Steemit i am more productive learning more about blockchain, cryptocurrencies everyday which i can never learn from Facebook as i was busy reading memes and watching funny videos and Facebook.
Awesome man!
@good-karma sounds you are very excited about xmas, very nice. Thanks for the awesome post.
I live in a difficult village in the reach of internet. In our village only available 2G network so can not get into steem.saya already know steem a year ago from friends in the city and I really like steem karna hobby I wrote. steem but constrained by internet network.but now the internet is good.i've been able to enter steem.sudah 4bulan enter steem I feel happy though steem income.di still but I feel happy because I can communicate with people overseas.thanks steem. bravo steem
I dream with steemit
Well, thank my brother he invited me to blog in this amazing community which is steemit. It was a blessing for me because I can blog for free and share my ideas and experiences anytime in steemit. This would be a boon in my christmas of 2017. Meeting new friend who can critique my work, improving my skills in blogging and learning more in the community with different article you can find in their trends. I hope that more blessings and be popular in our society this social blogging site which is steemit. I'm very excited when I open my account and seeing that my blog is viewed. It inspire me to make more. Thank you steemit for the opportunity. Advance Merry Christmas. God bless.
Steemit hasnβt changed my life yet, but I surely hope it will. I became pregnant last year and the father of my child left the picture completely. I suddenly became an unwed, single mother, and I also simultaneously lost my job because it didnβt pay enough to cover childcare that I felt comfortable placing my child into. I left my little home to move back in with my mom for some extra help as I navigated the work from home world making substantially less than I was used to or what would be considered a living wage and her house sold and the new home she purchased is being fully renovated-leaving us temporarily making do with a less than spacious living situation - haha. My hope and prayer is that steemit becomes an additional income source for this single Mamma who is working her butt off in multiple different areas to more than make ends meet, but to give my son the best life possible while still being able to be present in his life as much as possible.
I love steemit. and I loved all steemit lover.steemit is the best platform in the world for more earning and with fun, interesting and other facilities. I used facebook, Twitter, instagram aand other social media just my friend relation only.
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