Medium Is a Social Media Platform
Only nicer
I have been spending more of my time on Medium. As a writer, I need to read as much as I can. Here on Medium, the range of topics is as vast as the Universe, a metaphor. What I want to say is, I like it here. It is a nice place.
The essence of a social media platform is kinship. While there are two types of people here, the writer and the reader. Most of us, are both the writer and the reader. It is a community, while we don’t post random updates about our lives. We don’t share personal information or photos, or we don’t call each other as friends. We support each other.
We follow people, yes, we follow them for their writing. But we also follow them because we like them, or at least, we like what they say. The storytellers here come from different backgrounds, we are a diverse group of people.
We lift people, by encouraging them to keep on writing. We engage, by leaving a comment or a clap which is like a tap on the shoulder.
One more thing, we get paid for what we share. We are rewarded for our words and our work. While money is an incentive, it is not everything. Medium gives us a place to be…
