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For me it's usually #spud all day everyday, since I power up regardless what the day is, but today my actions happened to sync since I bought another batch of STEEM and powered up over the 10k Steem Power mark. But before that, I sold some liquids and staked it for a co-worker to whom I made a Steem account. One day I was chatting with her whilst working, and she happened to ask "so why are you going to Thailand?" 

> _Well... because of this online community thingy... it's complicated._

Couldn't hold myself long though, because I ended up explaining the whole deal – not in a very coherent way in the beginning though, because sorting mail and explaining Steem is not an easy thing to do. Just the _explain Steem_ part is hard enough.

That's why having a good narrative about Steem I think is important, because people need a hook to grab on in a form of story. Telling that you can earn cryptocurrency by posting isn't that effective, because it gives little reason to change already existing habits when most people upon hearing the word "cryptocurrency" get imaginary of scams and shady drug purchases. This is why I drop the _cryptocurrency_ out of the narrative to begin with.

> Centralized social medias collect freely donated data from the users to cash in with advertisers who are ready to pay for it – not for the user – put for the media house itself. Basically, Facebook treats you like a whoker that is given small dopamine bursts through user feed which is optimized for getting people addicted.

Now, the second phrase might backfire since it might get people defensive about their behavior if you try to paint them dumb, hence why I would use it cautiously. It's more powerful to let people to come up with their own conclusions.

Now that you have painted a narrative of injustice, we can follow up with something that brings a solution to this:

> What Steem does, is that it takes out the middle man from content and its selection process and gives the power to the crowd who will get rewarded accordingly on their contributions on content creation and curation.

This notion above is somewhat modulated from some post of @whatsup in which she put the idea of Steem (or one of them at last) quite elegantly in a way that made sense and was easily understandable for a non-technical person, without mentioning cryptocurrency.

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I don't start talking about Steem with anyone though, because I'm very selective: instead of trying everybody, I snipe the ones in which I see potential getting interested. How do I do that?

_I use my spider sense._ 

Well, not exactly, but for me I can easily spot people who could get interested, because they are usually people I enjoy talking with: they are curious and interested in ideas more than just 'things'. So, it is actually a very easy process, because I usually know to whom I like to talk with, _duh_. It's just that such people are rarely encountered – she was one of those. It made sense to me, because whilst working part time, she was working on her master thesis – people like that definitely have a higher likelyhood to hold traits that I value in a conversation partner compared to the general public.

It was quite satisfying when someone was capable of listening my ramblings on the ins and outs of the Steem ecosystem. Now I'm waiting just waiting eagerly, because I know she has some stuff to post. Friendly warning: Imma start poking at you if I hear nothing from you after a while :P










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