Stupid me thought writing on all of them is one and the same thing, and I could not be more wrong!

One of them is a sophisticated art gallery, and one is the filthy soiled Sunday flea market which we all love more than the art gallery!

I. Twitter

Roses and guns, smokes and cigars, panadols and sex dolls — talk about anything, and you will find an audience for yourself. The more insulting and demeaning you are, higher your following will be!

“Tell me one thing Donald Trump is bad at!” and there will be hundreds of replies with insulting GIFs and hateful comments. Sometimes I feel it is no place for sane men!

People talk anything and everything is up for sale! Even if you want to hire a hitman, just put out a tweet and you will receive DMs in no time!

If your profile indicates you are male, be prepared to get lots and lots of requests from beautiful cam girls trying to entice you to their chat rooms by constantly messaging you!

Often I feel that tweets are just another form of people shouting, where people are too busy to use proper sentences but strictly adhere to 280 characters or less. I wonder if something called as “Grammar” even exists on Twitter, but smileys and GIFs have taken over as the modern day language!

I cannot help but compare Twitter to the filthy, soiled and heavily crowded flea market — where we all love going. Probably there is more rubbish out there, but if we keep looking for the right thing — we may still find something that is worth reading and buying!

II. LinkedIn

As compared to the flea market, this is more of an upscale shopping complex in the most classy locality of the town. All the buyers here are super rich, and all the writers here are up for sale! Everything that you write here — it is with the sole purpose of attracting wealthy clients, getting more bookings for your online courses, or to build connections.

Writers only talk about all the positive things about engagement, reaching a wider audience, making an impact — and all the trash talk or occasional rants on Twitter is surprisingly gone!

All the writers are on their best behavior here — just like the well behaved children from a middle class family trying to gel into a rich society party.

While on Twitter you can put on your funkiest selfie as the display picture, LinkedIn has no place for that. Your LinkedIn display picture has to be your best suited photo from the best professional photographer, and should give the vibe that you have been acing the corporate culture like an eagle— even though you are nowhere even close to the same.

And did I tell you that connections matter here as well, just like any other corporate establishments?

When I read posts on LinkedIn, I hear terms such as SEO, article ranking, indexing — I have no clue what they are talking! But it makes me wonder wonder if writing has become more of an engineering product rather than an artform.

III. Medium

This is like the renowned art gallery where true connoisseurs of art go to taste the finest art form. We don’t have writers here but true artists — who aim to write engaging thought provoking stories. All the art lovers are very generous people who would even appreciate you through occasional tips. And there is no dearth of claps and appreciation if your work is worthy of the same. If fortune shines bright, you might even get noticed by some of the wealthy rich people out there, to assist them with their writing works.

Some artists write because they want to sell their work, while some write purely for their love of writing. All is acceptable here provided you do not spread any form of hate.

But sadly even Medium is getting spammed from all the AI generated content, and everyone is desperately trying to teach others how to earn more money! But I have the hope that it will improve with time.

Did I think writing is just writing? There is an entire writing universe out there with such contrasting audience and widely varying rules.

As writing is becoming more of an engineered product rather than an art form — the day is not far when AI copywriters will be better at producing such engineered works than human beings!

Besides, someone just told me writers are now also opening a shop on Instagram these days. 😟

Ever wondered that writing is not purely writing anymore, but more of a framework or set of rules — that writers must adhere in order to succeed?

Another interesting read from The Silent Monk:

https://medium.com/@thesilentmonk/3-types-of-love-recipients-which-one-are-you-83ac642ecd31

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