Introduction to steemit

My introduction to steemit has been filled with doubt and uncertainty,who would blame me?our collective online space this days have been covered with horrific stories of crypto currencies and block chain investment from the dive down of Bitcoin to the ban policies of social media and search engine giants Facebook and google.i would be doing a segments of my thought pattern on this later
Why did I sign up on steemit?
As a content developer have come to understand that most social media platform are built to give profit to the shareholders and owners forgetting the content developer that make the system work and also keep things interesting
Pls be on the look out for chapter 2