Here's the funny thing to me regarding rewards. Like you said Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest pay us nothing so ANYTHING we get from Steemit is an upgrade from that.

I think what gets people's expectations out of wack is when they see some posts making hundreds of Dollars, those are typically people have have been on here a long time, made a lot of connections and have a lot of powerful people who like their content helping them out. It's not typical and not something that is going to happen right away.

Here's what I find funny though. People are willing to jump through a ton of hoops to earn credit card rewards which are worth next to nothing. People will waste their time taking surveys online, watching videos for pay, doing Bitcoin faucets. They'll literally spend 5 hours doing boring repetive tasks to earn 0.04 cents worth of Bitcoin, yet they turn their nose up at Steemit because they are only making XYZ amount of money which I can pretty much gurantee is going to be more than anyone is earning from taking surveys or clicking on Bitcoin faucets.

I think another important thing about Steemit is despite it being sold as a blogging platform where your paid for content, that's not what it is. Steemit isn't about content, its about commenting, curating, and making connections. That's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, but that's what it is.

I think people need to stop comming on here thinking I'm just going to create great content and make money, Steemit, at least at this point in time isn't about creating content, its about making connections and being active in the community via contests, using bots, curating others content, and building communities. If your going to have any success that's what is going to do it and only after you have that part down can you actually make money off your content