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Hello Steemit community! Welcome aboard!

I am glad to be on this site and want to become acquainted with everybody (each of you). My name is Anastasia, I am from Russia. I am a stewardess on international flights, that is why I always travel. Also I’m photographer, artist, making 3D models, get involved in dancing and sport, overall I am very cheerful girl!

Рада находиться на этом сайте и хочу познакомиться с каждым из Вас! Меня зовут Анастасия, я из России. Я бортпроводница на международных рейсах поэтому постоянно путешествую, фотограф, художник, моделирую в 3-д, увлекаюсь танцами и спортом, и очень жизнерадостная девушка!

I am interested in cryptocurrency and everything that touches it (that connected with it). I have drawn a logotype of Steemit in style of our state flag of Russia.

Мне интересна криптовалюта и все что с ней связано, Я нарисовала логотип Steemit в стиле нашего государственного флага России.

Do you like it? :)

This is my badge which I do not part with even in the sky, also let it be my business card here.

Это мой бейджик с которым я не расстаюсь в небе, пусть будет и здесь моей визиткой.
I will rejoice you with such photos from the aircraft, because the best landscapes open from the top! I hope that I will explore the site quickly and make you happy with the best stories and photos, I will be glad to see you in subscribers.
Please, let me know if you like my profession and would like to work in the sky?

Буду радовать Вас такими фотографиями с борта самолета, ведь лучшие пейзажи открываются с высоты!
Надеюсь быстро изучить сайт и радовать в дальнейшем Вас лучшими рассказами и фотографиями, буду рада если увижу Вас у себя в подписчиках!
Напишите, нравится ли Вам моя профессия и хотели бы Вы работать в небе?
Thank you for attention, follow me and I will reciprocate.

Спасибо что обратили внимание на меня, следуйте за мной и я отвечу взаимностью!

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Privet! Welcome to Steemit and the revolution for liberty on social media, Comrade. I hope the information I share below helps you get started. If you have any questions, please let me know. If I don't know the answer, I'll find it as a private investigator. ;-)

Webpages

There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:

https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)

https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)

https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)

http://steemtools.com/ (This site is a comprehensive list of valuable tools.)

Bots

There are a lot of bots on Steemit. Some are useful and good, and others are not. If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot. Check the account's reputation. If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them. Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies. Are they all the same? It's a bot.

Sourcing and Adding Photos

Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too. The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story." Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer. Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text. Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.

Here's a link to a Google Document I made to help with the coding:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NlAoGnP8q7ZAxGsEnvza-qotUGkoaae4SwXdubAhi2g/edit?usp=sharing

Account Verification

Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more. The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account.

For example, I share my Steemit posts on my @finnianGC Twitter account. Another way would be to add your Steemit information to your Facebook account. Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped.

The more famous a person is and the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify.

Security

Do not use your owner key to log into Steemit.com to post. Use your private posting key instead. Keep your owner key offline as much as possible, and only use it when you must.

Per the advice given by Arcanage, you should only use your owner key to:

Recover your account.
Change the other keys.
Give a present to your children a few minutes before dying.

There have been some scams in the past. If you click a link to a site that prompts you to log into it, be extra careful. Double and triple check the address to make sure it is really steemit.com. A recent scam was using "lsteemit" as the domain name, and people were entering their owner keys to log into it. That allowed the scammers to take those user's accounts, empty the money from them, and then ruin their reputation by using the newly hacked accounts to further the scam.

If you find or suspect a scam, please report it in the #steemitabuse channel on steemit.chat.

Don't Lose Your Content

Make sure you are copying and pasting your post content often as you write it, and put the data into another document to avoid losing it. I'll copy and paste my content into a Google document as just one example. Some people use Markup editors to do the same.

Definitely keep a backup copy right before you post it too, for some people have come back the next day to see half or the entire post missing even though the day before it displayed correctly. Make sure you copy and backup your long replies as well, for they can vanish immediately after clicking to post them.

Again, welcome! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site or reply to this post.