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Has Social Media Platform Become Problematic For Medium?
Do you remember when you first found out the ‘follow me’ on social media — was it on twitter?
You frowned upon the word ‘follow’ that, for you, it always means ‘to go or come after’ when someone or something moving ahead. There is nothing personal about it, but rather a centralised direction to travel behind a leader.
I cringed and thought how weird that was that a stranger asked you to follow him/her. But it got even strange that in reality, I just said ‘follow me’ to build a new friendship. As time went by, follow me on social media became a norm, a common request from anyone.
Yes, Follow Me.
If Linkedin has the ‘connect’ button, twitter with ‘follow’ button to build a network of connection and followers, it all makes sense. Because the two are social media platform. Medium recently announced to create a relational and readership on its platform.
Things suddenly fall short. Has this social media platform proven problematic for Medium?
Just about eight years ago, the two founders of Twitter launched Medium. The entire website was back then exclusively ‘the invite-only’, but outsiders could read diverse collections of articles. Madrigal, writing…
