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Hello Steemit-I am thepenneys!

Hi my name is Jessica!

I am originally from the province of Quebec in Canada! I have been traveling across Canada since I was 18 and live in Newfoundland Canada for the last 9 years. I recently just relocated to Gaspésie back to Quebec to settle down :)). I am a mother of 3 boys, which is pretty chaotic most day, but fill with joy and craziness.

I recently learned about crypto currency or not really learned, but started to pay attention to it last year when my friend Guillaume @teamsteem who I know for more 15 years told me about it! He has great pieces written on steemit to get you started on all of it thank god! I am just finally sitting down and trying to learn everything about it, which is a Lot!!!! There is always a beginning to everything I guess.

My interest are very diversified, but I am someone that needs to know everything about everything! I can’t just skim a subject without going knee deep in it and learning everything I can about it. Being a mom brings concerns to my everyday living to make sure I give them the best, teach them the best, feed them the best and so on.....I am all about health in a more natural way :))

In this day and age I am completely mesmerized with what is out there. I feel that we are all in deep shit if you know what I mean. Most of the population is blind to everything out there and just completely controlled by the pharma, the government, and so much more but also the opinion of others.

I am eager to learn from all of you as well as to share some of my thoughts, concern and great achievements in a way to better myself and the world around me!

Cheers,

Jessica XO

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Hello! Any friend of @teamsteem is a friend of mine. It's a pleasure to meet you.

I feel that we are all in deep shit if you know what I mean.

I couldn't agree more, but part of being here on Steemit is to help as many of my friends avoid the worst of what is coming. We may be surrounded by zombies, but we'll survive the zombie apocalypse. haha

"Fortune favors the prepared!"

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.

The proven road to boost your personal success in this amazing Steem Network