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 passionate about one thing we love or learned to love, and that is writing.

Like any social media platform, you can meet people who you wouldn’t meet in real life. People here are not mean. We try to support newcomers. It isn’t an all-male club, there is no exclusivity and everyone is welcome.

Are there rules? Yes, there are, and they are quite simple. I think that is why it works so well. The rules are very few.

The statistics will show, more and more people are spending their time too on Medium. Similarweb ranks Medium together with the other social media platforms. It is true, that it is being outranked by the other well-known platforms, but it doesn’t matter.

Medium exists ad-free. It means it will never be a place for people with an agenda, much less help rig an election outcome.

While on other social media platforms, you can share ideas. There is too much noise in them. Here, nobody tells you, that you are wrong. First, there are some ideas not allowed, like bullying, racism, and fake news.

Maybe if Facebook and Twitter will rewrite their history, they will look at Medium and do the things, the way things are done here.

I wish everyone in here, more success not only in their writing but also in their own lives. And if you care to know me better, just check my profile Naff Beltran