agreeeee lol - I tried inviting my friends and none joined till this year haha

To be honest.  Facebook to me is like a gossipy type place.  Not really a place to grow freely.  Not many content creators focus their energy there.  Even though I have a Facebook page I am rarely there.  In the beginning I told lots of people but quickly found out that Steemit is at such a higher level than Facebook.

Most people on Facebook have a different mindset.. Targeting bloggers would be much easier lol!!

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You're right. I like that many of the people here love cryptocurencies and the new opportunities they bring. Making this faceboom juat to have more users would takr away from the platform.

My threshold is at least 50 cents per post.

It's much the same thing as with cryptocoins in the beginning. Many of these people already are trading coins around, but steem is more than a cryptocurrency, much more.

Nice job Brian, couldn't have said it any better really...

There is pretty much a different mindset on each and every social media channel out there.  Some people try to game them all to make money and never succeed and as many before me have stated, others really don't care about their futures and just become gossips.

Social media is supposed to be just that, social.  Nowadays with all the noise on FB, BS on Twitter and Youtube just playing catch-up, no one wins anymore but the ad agencies pumping the golden goose of advertising to the brink of explosion.

Until people realize their own value to others do they hold any value for themselves.  Coming over to a place like Steemit was actually a relief for me, knowing that now I can focus on what matters... community.

I've tried FB pages, groups, ads, FB Live video, you name it, but the platform really doesn't allow for personal creativity anymore.  It used to be that you could actually go thru the newsfeed and read great content, those days of FB are LONG F*g Gone now.

Looking ahead to some more poolside video :)  Steem On!

Facebook is dead to me, and they can have it. Instagram is where we can really see more converts! There are allot of talented artists, curators, photographers, and just plain attention whores that are building their profiles and followers and having to really grind to get any money out of it. Targeted Instagram marketing could gather new steemit users because, like you said about facebook, most people are one a level playing field. Instagram isnt as equal, You have to be good at taking photos, be attractive, or lead an interesting life to get a following.

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I've tried to tell my tribe about Steemit and I get those "looks" oh well, they will remember down the road I mentioned it like you said.

I was big into Myspace back in the day lol. I never really liked Facebook, always just seemed like your business is way too much out there. I remember I'd be hanging out with buddies and their gf's would be calling them why are you here doing this and that. I never wanted any part of that.

I'm probably one of the few Facebook holdouts. I'm probably missing out on some marketing opportunies but just never got into it. Got a throwaway account I use for FB ads.

Your totally right about the MLM thing. My girls one friend is pitching some new MLM every other week on FB lol.

I'm finding harder and harder buts fine with me, I think I brought over hundred or more that last couple days, they are confused haha

Pool meeting, haha! That's pretty cool 😉
Your points totally hit the nail. But hey: more rewards for us if they miss their chance! Ha!

Brian, 

You hit home some really good hard points in there. 

One of the real difficulties of on-boarding the facebook friends, and perhaps friends from other networks (wechat and weibo in my case) is that the barrier to entry remains some-what high. 

High in that it takes a considerably more amount of time to produce content on here, than it does on other platforms like instagram or even facebook (would you even call the posts on facebook content creation?) 

There is a degree of cognitive dissonance due to the misconceptions of what Steemit actually is all about. This I imagine, is due to the platform still discovering it's own identity as a social hub, or a content creation / content consumption platform. 

There are few people who would be considered successful on Steemit who behave the same way they do on facebook, or use Steemit the same way they use facebook. Yes, there are people who write lovely blogs, in their notes on facebook, and frequently write long in-depth status updates, as well as share pictures and video, but notice, these are for the sake of interacting with their friends, and not strangers. People do not use facebook to 'make' new friends. They use it to connect and engage with their existing ones.

A sub-group of users on facebook users use it in a similar way to Steemit, and those are the people with public facing accounts which are separate to their personal ones. Content posted there is largely intended to find their way to people they do not yet know or perhaps don't even care to know. They just want the internet to discover it and have their content be seen. 

I was recently talking to a friend of mine who I introduced to Steemit (but has largely lost motivation to keep posting) about what their goals are. As you said, yours is to try build a certain amount of following which could lead to an increased amount of rewards and thus Steem Power. Meanwhile, my friend dreams about wanting the prestige, the ability to socially influence, and to be known by millions of people (yes, the money would then become a self fulfilling prophecy in that case). However, In her case, she doesn't dream of making good money on Youtube nearly as much as being a person watched by millions of people on youtube. But here's the catch, it's not because she's covered her financial bases and doesn't require money - quite the opposite. 

Steemit is not (yet) a mainstream platform, so a content creator who wishes to be 'known' and potentially recognised by people just by walking in the street will not get here. Ironically, they are even less likely to get that on Youtube unless they have particularly outstanding work. 

This brings me back to your point about the effort required, and people's expectations of what they think they should be entitled to for remuneration on their work. If a facebook user comes to Steemit and has to overcome the initial barrier of spending hours to produce content which may not get rewarded or seen, then they would rather spend less time and take the personal victory of posting something that takes no time to produce on their facebook and have it applauded and liked by people they know. 

To make the whole process better, there needs to be a gradual maturing of the platform which does not ostracise people for behaving in exactly the way they would on facebook (as well as the platform providing the UI to do so). But then, the site would just be a facebook wannabe. 

Typical Facebook users, and typical Steemit users are not birds of a feather, and thus, aren't likely to flock together.

A lot of people on Facebook really do not have anything to say. They don't contribute to anything anyway. I only told a select few that might find this interesting who weren't only liking cat videos and memes all day long but actually expressed their opinions on stuff.