Social media should be the greatest thing for bringing people together, you sign in and have instant access to other users around the world. It means we can speak to people around the world from any social or racial background and so learn how we are not so different in our hopes and dreams.
Yet this isn't happening, in fact quite often the opposit is happening.
Facebook is by far the major player in social media yet it's main aim as a business is to make money rather than connect people. Even if you are friends with people all over the world you only see a few posts from the same old people. You are placed in a small brandwidth of contacts to see, probably influenced by target advertisers or games played as much as interaction with people. If you run a page over there then you are constantly asked if you want to pay to 'boost your post.'
Facebook is a business platform to sell things where the social side has been pushed into a corner. That social side is further eroded as political parties and organisations take advantage of it's user base to push agendas. It gives, for example, hate groups a direct link onto the most powerful advertising platform on the planet. It is being used to divide rather than bring us together.
Yet steemit could be a game changer in social media, we don't need advertiser money to boost profits, there are no filters to limit what posts you see and so far people here are posting about their own lives and what they do. I'm learning about what people eat, what their home and communities look like, their day to day life. By spending time looking at photographs and reading about what crops a lad half way around the world is planting I'm learning about life outside my own little bubble. Steemit can't be turned into just another corperate tool to keep us divided, it is a community of people who choose to share things from their lives.