A Conversation Between Facebook and Steemit: A Comic

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Hey there Steemit, I’ve got a new AI Memory tool for you to use. You will get interactive surprises in the form of your memories at random times. It even happens outside of Facebook. Wanna try it out?

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Who made it? I’d like to reward and upvote the creator of the tool if I decide to use it.

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One of our employees made it. Actually I don’t know which department they work in, but they’ve already been paid a salary, so no need to know who made it.

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Hmmm…ok, no thanks.

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Hey Steemit, I’ve been noticing that you don’t post status updates any more. What’s up with that?

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Well, your algorithm doesn’t work very well, I don’t get an increase in my reputation when I post on Facebook, and you don’t reward me economically, either. So, when I add up those 3 things, it doesn’t really make sense to write a status update anymore on you.

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What do you mean I don’t increase your reputation? If your post is popular, it gets pushed to the top of your friends’ feeds. Your post gets more views.

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Well, you don’t display a number next to my name. You have no way of calculating a number that represents how others feel about my content, character and integrity.

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Hmmm…I see your point. And what did you mean when you said that I don’t reward you economically? What’s that about?

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Well, in my world, users’ upvotes (equivalent to your Facebook Likes) represent money. So, when I get an upvote from one of my friends, I am rewarded with a certain amount of money. The amount of money varies and is dependent upon how much stake one has. If one has a large stake, then that user’s upvote is worth more, than say someone who has a small stake. But my friend doesn’t have to pay me any money from their account. Having Steem (money in Steemit) powered up, makes this wealth-giving property possible. Regular money doesn’t have this attribute. And you don’t have anything like that.

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Hmmm.....You mean some of the users are kind of turned into investors and stakeholders? So, it’s as if the users have the chance to turn into those who own Facebook stock?

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Yes

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Hmmm…that’s a genius idea. It kind of gets rid of the whole need of me bugging my users to give me more and more information for the advertisers who are funding my entire existence. So, wait, does this mean you don’t have to bug your users to get their birth dates, interests, entire family history, smoothie preferences and blood type?

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That’s correct. I don’t need much information at all to function. All I need is a username, email address and telephone number. I don’t need any other user information besides that.

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Wow, that makes your job a lot easier than mine. Hmmm…I wonder why users would hand over all their private data if you don’t require any of it?

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Well, 54,000 Steem accounts were created in July, last month, so I guess those people found out about me.

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Um, wanna try out my new Ai-generated movie of your Tuesday afternoon?

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I've done that before. It’s not that exciting, plus I don’t really need it.

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Damn. Maybe what people need is way more basic than what I had assumed. I mean, we just got done with a super duper fancy dancy AI secretary for our users. But maybe what most of them need is just money to survive. I don’t think Zuckerberg really thought this through at all.

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Well, there is one thing I have to deal with that you don’t.

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What?

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Whale wars.