Is Medium a Social Media Platform?

Here’s What You Need to Know

Some confession time. I hate social media. Rather, I hate the work that each platform requires. Want to get your Insta follower count up? Then you need to write 100 comments, like, and follow other Insta peeps every day. Want to get your Twitter game on? Send out ten tweets a day, retweet, and like 1,000 posts!

Exhausting.

MidJourney Prompt: Social media icons swirling around a writer. Use studio lighting. Use MidJourney v5 with photorealism mode turned on to create an ultra-realistic feminine image. UHD, — ar 9:16

I’ve been contemplating writing on Medium for a while, but I avoided it because I didn’t want to pay the $50 per year. I didn’t think I should pay to write.

But … I kept finding articles I wanted to read. So, I took the plunge and decided to write a few stories all while reading the stories I wanted.

Here’s the thing about Medium, though. It’s just a fancy-schmancy social media platform, albeit more long form than the others. It’s like if Wordpress and Twitter had a love child.

That means that you need to engage with other writers, leave comments, and clap for posts you like. Add your Medium profile along with your other social media icons.

The more you put in, the better your stories will do.

Exhausting?

Perhaps.