How Medium Became My New Social Media

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When I first opened my account in Medium, I didn’t spend that much time on it, but then, as time passed, I developed a passion for it, something about it was fascinating, what I hadn’t realized is that I had successfully tricked myself into making medium my new Instagram and Facebook. This realization came to me when I caught myself checking medium several times a day just to see if my posts had had any claps. Claps had become the new likes.

Then as I started thinking about, I realized this had been happening before I even started writing. All I did was search for things that agreed with my opinion about the world, I had been having FOMO for a while, and all I cared about was getting more followers. Then, when I actually started writing, it got worse, I was doing exactly the same thing I did on Instagram: Looking desperately for approval either via followers, comments or claps and compulsively checking my phone, you know, just in case somebody wrote a comment. all of this, just to get that instant gratification, to feel part of something, to feel accepted. And the worst part of all is, I didn’t even realize this was happening. Can you relate?

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