Badges can only be obtained via "crafring" of trading cards, and serves both for increasing profile's level and decorating it.
In this guide, I'd like to tell you about the last in the list, but not in importance. Thanks to them it became possible to personalize Steam profiles with a use of backgrounds, showcases, screenshots, artworks and badges to create peculiar prism of soul, that would reflect Inner World of it's owner. Some of those functions have a cosmetic role. Neon Drive in Top 50 on Steam Greenlight News Neon Drive, an 80s style arcade-rhythm game, has reached 33 out of 1949 games on Steam Greenlight in only 2 days. NEON EDIBLE BODY PAINT SET with STENCIL & Brush Sex Aid Romantic Gift Xmas.Modern Natural Sisal Carpet Floorlux Silver Practical Wipe Clean Messy. More importantly, already wide spectrum of social aspects becomes even wider every day, as a variety of functions keeps increasing. And no matter how different Steam's users are, they all are similar in love to videogames, which sometimes becomes a beginning of real and strong friendship that goes far beyond the network and aforementioned interest. It makes this might-seen secondary social segment really outstanding, even in comparison with network "giants".
Steam is a versatile platform, and despite being a game service, it allows users not to just spend their free time in virtual worlds but aslo in communication with other people with much more comfort than before.