people are naturally suspicious of new ideas. I was on Twitter for 7 yrs trying to establish a platform for my writing, but even though I have over 50,000 legitimate followers, it accomplished little other than to establish my brand. Now, I tweet my posts each time I put up a story or poem on steemit, and I even encourage fellow writers to check the site out, but it seems to be the user interface that deters them. I think they'd even rise to the challenge of learning about cryptocurrency if the site was dumbed down to the point where access was similar to Twitter and Facebook. Well, that's my experience anyway.