True what you said about not being easy to be on steemit if you dont know so much about computers but also true that there are a lot of trolls who are only here for the money and they learned how to use the basics and stay just for that, thank god for all the services that dedicated themselfs to keep the platform clean like SteemCleaners. i personally like the fact that the platform is such community center, if you want to survive in here you have to do networking or you will not success, so i like that very much.

In your views as a trader not being one myself i dont really get all the markets and stuff so dont have a comment on that lol, as a teacher you said you wish for more "direct communication"and i think you do have that here through the comments, maybe cause you are new and don't have many people following you dont see it, but as your followers grow you will see more of them commenting and that will give you what you want, is true the only thing missing in the platform is a private massage option but i think that has to do with the fact that even when you comment on a post you can get rewarded for it so it goes into the blockchain and everything in the blockchain is public, i dont know im just guessing.

Welcome to SteemIt hope you find it found to be here, such a great first post congrats!!