In my case, and I'd suggest for a number of members here, they simply don't want their friends and family here.
For me, I consider this to be my personal space where I can meet and talk to people I don't know in real life. It reminds me a lot of the early days of the net where we were all making amazing New connections with people around the world on the many chat sites and blogging platforms that were around back then . I see the advantage of Steem in its worldwide communities of like minded people not in some Facebook group style family and friends thing.

I love the promotion efforts but in my case it is  with pushing Steem to common interest communities as opposed to blanket family and friend invites ! Trust me, if you ever met my sister-in-law, you'd thank me for not inviting her here!

Best wishes with your endeavours here and your future studies .

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