I heard about Steemit from James Corbett from www.corbettreport.com. He has a YouTube channel as well. I then started hearing more and more people I follow on YouTube mentioning Steemit- people like SGTreport, jsnip4, Gregory Mannarino. So a big thanks to them!

A video from @dollarvigilante introduced me to Steemit. After seeing how welcoming and supportive the community was, I knew it was the place to be.

Because all other platforms are limited and keep you from expanding and evolving  from your talents & creativities

I joined for rewards and no censorship.

I love the people, the newsfeed,  the upvote button that is always like "OMG click me", and that this is a great opportunity for us to create quality content and own it.

I see a lot of "Thank you for this post, Good post, etc" compliments, these folks dont actually get it, we're not here to praise people/posts/histories just to get cash,

We are here to create good content, Art, marvelous experiences, critics, ideas,
Open your mind people.

I Johnem because i like new things. I love make a photo, and there i can eared some cash for my artystach "skills" :D

Great question @thisisbenbrick I joined Steemit because of the potential of the network. 

I don't like the fact that social media giants are getting rich off my hard work and then they have the nerve to shadow ban our content. 

Steemit is something fresh that we need. At least now I have a reason to produce content regularly. I get PAID to post :)

Steemit is here for the long haul and the soon other people realize this the stronger the network will become.

I have always wanted to dip my toe into blogging and I feel like steemit is a great place for me to start. This is a great community and hopefully it will only continue to grow!

I joined because i wanted to learn about cryptocurrencies. I usually do not like social media but steemit is great.

Regardless of income generation, it is a friendly community of like minds capable of cognitive dissonance and open ended conversation outside of the main stream!  If nothing else, we are all here out of curiosity and one single interest that draws us in as a group.  It is a healthier, more transparent culture derived from desire to supercede evil!  Steem on.

The reason I joined was this guy on youtube named Gregory Mannarnio, a stock market trader said he was also posting on Steemit.  He said that even if you don't want to blog you can make cryptocurrency by just commenting.  So I came her this month.  I just kept reading other blogs and commenting.  It is kind of exciting to see some money for that.  I made $2.52 from a comment about cooking bacon.  I mentioned how I like to bake the bacon cause I don't want to flip it.  I am very happy to see that $2.52.  Of course most comments get $0.00 and still I am happy I got to share some thoughts that seems valuable to me.  Even $0.01 is exciting to see.  Yesterday I did my first blog.  I called it, What Some Did For The Flu Back In 1918 To 1919 - Water and Baking Soda Saved Their Lives.  In it I mention how just using baking soda and water to combat the flu.  I wasn't sure I can take photos from the net so I just took out my camera and set up some baking soda and a cup of water and shot it.  Today I see it made $0.02.  I am very happy for that $0.02.  I am more happy to share some information that someone can really use and use right now.  So I will keep on commenting and since I did make some money with my blog I will keep doing that also.  I still don't know much about this Steemit stuff.  I figure if it takes off my little money here and there will add to something big 10 years from now.

I joined because of a few YouTube videos I saw that made me curious. I do like how the community up votes the content vs some search engine and algorithm. I do have some content made up that I want to share and hopefully I will get it posted soon I have a lot of "irons in the fire" at the moment so I am working on leaning out my life so I have more time.

Well, have to be honest, i saw a youtube video explaining how steemit pays their users for uploading content, and i had to try it!... I was in a very critical economic situation (as many in my country), which have changed rapidly with steemit... That been said, once i realized how steemit works, i can honestly say that i am not staying here just for the money, but for the possibility of building a fanbase and followers for my music in the future, i think steemit have the fatest growing rate in users/followers i ever seen, at least for me... It was very hard for me to get this many followers in other social media...

I want be happy

I've joined because of lack of community sense on other social media networks. Steemit is the ultimate example of how all social media concept should actually be.

I heard about this through Gregory @marketwatch. I was already watching videos on markets, crypto currency so why not try to make a few pennies by adding comments and even trying to do some posts myself. I have not done the social media stuff prior to this other then viewing.

I started back in July 2016, but I have not been active. Trying to get back into it. 

Need a clear guide of best practices...

Instagram  is full of sh**

I was frustrated with Facebook over limiting my feeds,sometimes I could only view 2-5 post before getting prompted to add more friends to see more post!,I knew I was not getting to see A 10th of the content that my family and friends were posting...I was sick of the ads, sick of the censorship,and sick of all the troll and negativity!  ..So I was looking for something better! ...Seen a video on youtube  that was like 9 months old ,on steemit. com , after that it was just a matter of checking it out and seeing the positive people and how much friendlier the site was!   
I have been trying to tell everyone I know (all 10) people about it!..lol..
 In three weeks I have a bigger group of people that I want to talk to than 10+ years  on facebook!
  thank you all!
namaste

Nice info! my friend

My friend @shayne told me about it.
He thought with all the activity I put out on other social media sites, that this would be a good fit for me. Plus, he simply loves the site and I think he'll look for any excuse to talk about it...lol.
So I joined, and was right and I've fallen in love with it....however, I'm no where near posting as much as I would on other sites...I respect it to much...so I keep trying for a level of quality..... I'm still trying to see what will stick. I'm getting there.
I started a blog series on my quest to lose 35lbs, of which part 2 will go up today after I get off work... I've started a series called Caraoke, where I sing to music on the radio while driving to and from work, of which I also have another entry going up today... I've started a weekly pixel art contest with steem payout, this just started yesterday, has had upvotes but no entries as of yet....and finally im doing a steemit lotto, just another way for users to win steem, this will go live as soon as @shayne finishes the artwork for it.
I'm not saying any of these ideas are brilliant, but I enjoy doing it and I'm making a lil bit of money at the same time.
I just got my wife @flowerpowerart to join as well and she's already bringing stuff to the table as well.
We hope to continue to grow in this community and we're both very happy to be here.
Give us a follow!
Cheers everyone and have a great day!

I joined because it was the first time I had heard the word cryptocurrency and I was far to curious not to get involved.

I joined steemit because of @Crypt0. I heard him say the name a few times on his YouTube channel and it just sounded so interesting. So, I joined and haven't looked back. I've never been one for blogging, but the steemit community is so friendly and welcoming. It almost feels like I could post anything and that feels great. 

Aside from that, I believe in the Steem crypto currency and I feel like it will continue its upward trend. We all go to the moon together.

nice...resteem and upvote for your...

I joined because of Trevon who I watch on youtube. I wanted to see what the community was like and how the site worked in general. So far I really like it and could see replacing my Facebook addiction with Steemit!

I loved reading this post and agree with only voting for really good content and ideas. Seeing the quality of the content and the genuine interaction between the users here is what made me stay.

I joined because I think steemit is the next big thing in social media!!

Good  post. Thanks followed  Upvoted.

Because this social media is different from the others,we get vote and we help each other for steem

Originally I came on my sister's word that it could, eventually, become passive income. 

I've more or less given up on the idea that the money is going to be anything more than a can of coke's worth, but Instead I use it as a wordpress replacement. 

With wordpress, no matter what I used to post about, I consistently got christian-devoted followers, even when I post something staunchly anti-christian. There seemed to be no sense of community or incentive to build community.

Here seems a little closer, and just in general re-invigorated my love of writing crap. 

I'm hardly struggling, but if it gets me money, it gets me money. I'm just here to dump brain thoughts somewhere so they aren't lost in faded memory ^__^

By the way that drawing is insanely good. A thousand thoughts sparking my imagination!