I have been thinking and using steemit for last few weeks and it is a good website but surely it needs functions like Facebook to get people addicted to it.
Needs to be able to add and search real friends from their contact lists. Similar to what Facebook does with your phone take access of your contacts and give option to add them. People will be more interested if they see posts from their friends and family
This should be the first thing all together... Create a steemit app so people use it over phone rather than laptops or cpus