I don't mind the caution, even if what people hear about STEEM and crypto in general are exaggerated, half truths, or essentially blame it all.

However, with some time to step back and see what's going on, monitor the situation for a while, get more used to the concept, STEEM will make the most sense to folks.

Right now, though, there apparently continues to be a bottleneck to the on boarding process, unless you are bot farms. Individual accounts are all across the board in the time that it takes for them to be approved. So, there are people out there trying to get in and can't.

If some of your friends were stuck in that time loop for a while, I imagine that some of them would lose interest and probably wouldn't come back, like some others that have been reported.

I find it hard to talk about STEEM to anyone, at least not in a major advocacy way, just because, unless it's a pure investment, the ecosystem just isn't ready yet. There's plenty of good things happening, and early in is better than late to the party, but you still have to have a higher tolerance for whatever you want to call what goes on here than I think the average person cares to or has the capacity to do.

So, anyway. STEEM in and of itself is not a hard sell. It's seeing the goings on here that can become a detriment. :)