Hive is an English word with a lot of meaning depending on the usage. But the number one definition that would pop up in your dictionary would probably be the definition of being: "a structure where bees are housed in".

Busy Bees

If you’ve ever seen an active beehive be it in a picture, video or physically; you would notice something about it. And that would probably be the buzzes of bees flying around or working in the hive.

Bees are hardworking insects by nature and they are very organized like the ants too. They have an organized societies with roles dished out to different members of their communities.

Well I don’t know much about bees perhaps I would go and read more about this wonderful insect on Wikipedia.

But the busy nature of bees is so remarkable that the word busy is being similized to bees. You might have heard the popular simile: “as busy as a bee” or heard or read of a hardworking person being referred to as a “busy bee”.

The environment one lives in says a lot about the personality of such person and even animals. A clean animal would live in a clean environment so likewise a busy animal would stay or make its environment busy.

Since bees are associated with busyness therefore their residence "hive" is also associated with busyness. Not only is hive associated with busyness, it is also associated with a crowdy environment due to the fact that bees move in large number called swarms and live together to form a colony.

When a place is referred to as a hive, it means that such a place is a busy place filled with busy people or occupants. For example; a market place can be described as a hive because it is a crowdy place filled with busy people.

Hive platform

Well I’m sure that most of us here on read cash must have heard about the hive platform and even some of us here are active members of the site.

Indeed I have heard of hive more than 7 months ago. But it was in late February I decided to give it a trial. An account was created for me through "peakd" by a kind fellow with the username; "flaxz" . But unfortunately I lost my keys, meaning I lost the access to my account. It was a painful incident and ever since then I have never thought of opening another account because I didn’t even know how to.

I never thought of hive and even if I did I didn't bother myself with checking it out because my hands were filled with blogging on read and noise cash.

It was in late April while having a discussion with a friend and a former writer on read cash that I got to know that I could open a hive account for free through "Ecency". I did follow his instruction and I opened an account via ecency.

After opening the account I didn't make use of it, I didn’t make any post. The reason? I believe the reason why I didn't follow it up was the fright that comes with not knowing how to use something strange to one. So I abandoned it although this time around I had access to my account unlike the previous stint.

First step

But today I have made my first post on hive all thanks to @Cesca_Jove who inspired and guided me step by step on making a post, she showed some hive communities I should join on discord.

Without her I won’t have made my introductory post. I was welcomed to the site by so many writers, among those who welcomed me there are some familiar names of my fellow read cash writers; @Olasquare @Kushyzee @Jumper-01

Just like a beehive the hive platform seems to be a very busy place and also a complex site where there are a lot communities, rules and a lot of front-end one can use to get access to the platform.

It not as easy to understand like read cash and there are many terminologies and function one has to learn like: power up, power down, etc.

I know it's just a matter of time before I get used to the platform. @Kushyzee sent me an article written by Jane. The article is titled: Hive Basics For Beginners

For those who are reading this article and you're also a "Hiver", please kindly follow and read my introductory post; Geez! What took me so long?

Thanks for reading 😊