My first week on Steemit has been an incredibly exciting journey so far, complete with euphoric ups and bleak-hearted downs. I think every newbie minnow like myself gets some decent upvotes for their introduceyourself post   [**here's mine, incidentally :D**](https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@edumurphy/okay-let-s-try-this-for-the-first-time-again) and becomes starry-eyed at the thought of of every post being like that only for reality to set in once your next five go through with nothing much.

I've been fortunate enough to get [**one more high-ish upvote post**](https://steemit.com/nigeria/@edumurphy/sometimes-the-obvious-isn-t) - and you better trust and believe I *will* be doing some analytics on this later (exams start Tuesday, wish me luck :D) - but suffice it to say, posts that offer actual utility to Steemians are rewarded and that's awesome. 

Anyway, analytics! Later! In the coming month! Because exams! For now, I just want to bask in how hyped I am again!

People are flooding into this platform every second (not the fewest of which are from Naija aka Nigeria, my country) and as they see posts like this one, more and more of them will get sucked into the Rube Goldberg machine that is the Steemit incentivization system (which turns us into better posters) until we hit critical mass and the rest of the social media landscape become ... altnetworks lol

As I have said before, Steemit is the premier way to turn literacy into lucre. Nobody is offering anything that can beat that.

Anyway, gotta go study! Peace out, see you on the moon! 🚀🚀🚀