Please Don’t Ruin Medium
Medium is the best social media platform out there, let’s keep it that way.
Human maketh and human destroyeth.
The era of the internet has brought us incredible tools and products and social media, to me, ranks highly on the list.
Our problem as humans is that we can’t have nice things, because we use them and come to abuse them shortly thereafter.
I have come to LOVE Medium, I have written a few articles over time but have more importantly consumed hundreds of them.
Medium is an amazing place for creators and consumers alike. It offers access to an engaged audience in somewhat of a meritocratic way who it in turn blesses with infinite amounts of qualitative content at a very low fee (or free, but do people really still not pay the 5$?!).
But its biggest appeal is also what is causing it problems: it is an opportunity to make money.
Because anything or anyone that offers people to make money, especially online, opens themselves up to abuse.
Having come back more seriously as a writer in recent times, there are a couple of behaviors that have struck me as being detrimental to this platform that blesses us and that we should bless in return.
