Hello! Wishing you a very warm welcome to Steemit! My name is Alex and I have been here for four months now, learning the ropes and sharing many things from my ideas and experiences. I've also met more amazing people on Steemit than I would have ever imagined, and am happy to tell you that Steemit is a very special community of people from all walks of life.
I lead a small group called the @ecoTrain. We support things and people that Help To Make The World A Better Place, and that includes you! So we have banded together this week and have all written the best and most helpful advice we can for you! We have all written pretty amazing and helpful posts and I would like to share them all with you here! There are eight messages for you in all, and I think its great to be able to read from a few peoples perspectives. I think you will find there are some common themes between us all, and so I hope our messages of help and advice inspire you and help you to be a happy and engaging new addition to the community!
@eco-alex
A VERY warm welcome to you @Steemit-user ! Congratulations for joining the first social network of its kind, and also for figuring out how to write an introductory post! As you can see, there isn't that much exact guidance about how to use Steemit or indeed exactly what it is!
@tim-rumford
This question was posted in our @ecoTrain group for our question of the week. I struggled with this one as it's not the deep philosophical writing we sometimes do. However, it is a very important question...
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@ecoinstant
We've all been the new person before. In fact its an interesting sociological point that many people in a group, even the majority, can feel like they are new like they don't fit in yet, like they don't belong, etc. Well, welcome to Steemit! You belong here!
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@mrfunkymonk
I have been on Steemit for just under 3 months so I am relatively new to it. However, there are some great unmissable aspects of Steemit I have learnt about that I'd like to share with you, as a new user.
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@vangelov
We all came here for the same thing, there is no lie for that and there isn't a way to sugar coat it. The money speaks at the end of the day. But there is something more to money on the blockchain and if one is to look purely for money here, hed waste the potential of steemit.
@likedeeler
Welcome to steemit! Ready to roll? Though you might have been lured here by the promise of quick riches, it might be better for your mental health if you would put the aspects of being creative and expressing yourself in a supportive community before any thoughts of remuneration.
@hopehuggs
When I came Steemit, like so many, I thought I could make some quick money for just writing a few thoughts and ideas down. For me, I took a look deeper and saw all the poetry here and I shared some of my own (old and new), with some of my feelings about the world and the relationship I was in.
@sharoonyasir
Joining Steemit is quite exciting for most people, but at the same time, it is a very overwhelming experience for many too. Like I remember when I joined Steemit, I felt a weird pressure on myself for making it big on Steemit right away. Before I move on to giving my message to those just joining Steemit, I would like to share a bit of my story with everyone here so they know the foundation on which my message for the newbies is based.
You made it to the end!! I really hope this has been helpful to you! We would love to hear from you in the comments as to why you joined Steemit, and what sort of things interest you. It's those things I hope you will be posting about.
I would also like to reward you for commenting why you came here by offering the first 20 people who do respond 1 SBD each. It may not be much, but you will see how nice it feels to receive even a small gift of recognition. SO what are you waiting for, please do comment below! If your comment is REALLY inspiring I will be awarding 10 SBD for what I consider to be the best comment on this post!
