Hard for me to accept this, but just as you said, sadly it is true, I am from Mexico and like you, I am very excited about Steemit so I decided that I could help Steemit grow in Mexico so I took my iPad, created some nice Slides and installed it in a car that I have working in Uber so that all the passengers could find out about Steemit, published the story here https://steemit.com/steemit/@oumar/first-uber-spreading-the-word-about-steemit
And I don't want to say it was ignored (I do deeply appreciete the ones that showed their support with an upvote and specially the ones who took the time to comment) but after 12 hours despite this being a real life contribution to the growth of Steemit, my post has only 20+ votes :(