This is a fictional story about a newcomer entering the Steemverse. It's a diary, created as a funny (I hope) journal about the difficulties of beginners. I know this is not the real experience of most of the newcomers. It's just a tale.

My poor mastery in English doesn't help my effort but, gadzooks!, should I give up for that?! :) (Maybe yes.)

Day One. I did it! I'm in! I filled the form and I'm going to have my own account on Steem! I'm really excited! Xxxx told me every wonders about that social media, and the money he earns there, and the great community he found - and again about the money he earns. I guess I'll receive the validation of my account in a short time (weird it's not instantaneous).

Day two. I have not received the confirmation to start my account. I searched Google about it and it seems the approving can take days! Meanwhile I browsed a bit around the website and the posts. Well, it looks pretty simple, but I bet it is because I'm not registered yet and I can't see all the amazing features every social has nowadays! (I hope there will be not too much requests for playing stupid Candy Crush like games!)

I saw Xxxx this night and he wasn't surprised at all about the long wait to have my account approved.

Day seven. Whee! I received an email and a SMS from Steemit. My account is finally on. They need to hire someone to run this process, in my opinion. How can they believe people is going to wait a week for actually, well, playing the game?! It took less time for me to have a gun - and I'm not living in USA!

In the meanwhile I read some posts, starting from the the ones having the biggest rewards. It seems Steemit users mostly like posts about Steemit, money and tech stuff (which I don't understand). But honestly there are posts on every subject: travel, food, kitten... Well, the things you find on the web, you know - with a strange lacking of sex stuff.

Some posts are earning hundreds of dollars - ok, it's not real money, I guess: probably some kind of eXperience Points. (Xxxx says it's real money. But he's not the most reliable of men, honestly.)

Day eight. I published some posts in my Steemit page. The interface is still very poor but at least it is simple. Very simple. Or very complicated: I couldn't find a way to put a photo in my posts. I need to read some tutorials maybe. (Not the best welcome from a social media, if you ask me, having to google around to find a tutorial - and having to READ it!). Let's see how it goes.

Day nine: I read the Welcome page linked in the mail I received from Steemit 2 days ago. I didn't consider it in the beginning: all the social media and forums I'm in are very intuitive and I didn't need to read anything! Why Steemit have not a default tutorial starting when you go in? I mean, even the poorest videogame shows you to move using w, d, a, s! There are pop up windows leading you in the first steps! I thought nowadays we users had enhanced a right to have leading pop up tutors! It's disappointing.

Day ten. My posts didn't received but a few votes and visits. I guess it's normal, in the beginning. So I tried to find some friends of mine on Steemit. But - can you believe it? - there is no searching feature to find your friends! Well, there is a search button, but it seems to be just a google search form.

This place is not friendly at all.

Oh, I found some good fellows who very kindly answered my questions (asking just a vote in return): he told me I have to find whales and follow them. It doesn't seem so funny a game but, hey, I'm not the kind giving up when things are hard!

Day 22. Steemit is still an inaccessible tower for me. It's like I've been admitted to the suburban boroughs but I can't find a way to enter the castle. That's social racism, let me say it!

One of my posts got 10cents of reward. So I tried to share it around (in comments of other posts, of course: there is no other way!). I shouldn't have done that! I received very bad words in return! This guys have their own etiquette and are very sensitive about it!

Day 46. I check my Steemit account once in a while. They are a circle of snobby nerds, if you ask me.





[To be continued] ;)