Writing

Have You Fled Your Favourite Facebook Medium Group?

Are you a link bomb refugee, too?

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I surrender and Aussies don’t give up easily

I am a refugee from several Medium writers groups on Facebook, where every time you share a new story you get:

• a link bomb 💣 and
• a promise to read for 30sec,
• clap 50x, and
• fully engage

where at least half of those promises are lies .

Promoting yourself as a 30sec reader of my 5-7min story gets you no cred.

I am not following you and your 50x claps mean nothing to me.

Why Am I Fed Up With Facebook Medium Groups?

It’s not just the deluge of AI prompted stories which are so easy to detect.

Or the overwhelming verbosity of writers whose first language is not English, but who don’t use an AI editor to turn their thesaurus vomit into something close to passable every day language.

It’s the lies about being “fully engaged” and expecting you to do the same.