I have currently been using steemit for around 6 months now. During this time I have learnt a lot about the platform. I would like to share some of my opinions about the platform with you all.

Steemit allows you to earn money directly from posting, that's awesome! Soo.... what's wrong?

When I enter steemit and make a post and reply to fellow authors within the community, I do not feel connected to the community. Rather, I feel as though the whole community is rather isolated from one another and I think i know why.

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MESSAGES!!!!

Steemit is the only social media platform that I can think of where a private message feature is not allowed. That is, everything from, facebook, twitter, youtube, heck even online chess.com allows fellow users to privately message one another!!! Okay, so I appreciate that with a private messaging feature, we must also introduce an ability to block users and it may slightly increase the rate of negative behaviours... However, I truly believe that for this platform to gain popularity from the general public a private messaging feature is imperative. Nothing is more powerful than directly receiving a message from someone who inspired you to make high quality content, or from someone letting you know that you inspired them to make quality content.

I seriously would love to see steemit introduce a private messaging feature, and I would love to hear about your thoughts in the comments on whether (and more importantly why) you agree or disagree with me!

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