Instagram vs. MediumWhy a dumb app like Instagram is 100x more valuable than intelligent app Medium.

Instagram’s worth is estimated to be $100+ billion, platform where you are wasting your time and which makes you dumb & depressed.

You don’t learn anything from it, apart from who does the weirdest selfies or takes the funniest pictures.

Medium worth is estimated to be $600+ million, platform where you can read blogs from experts on various topics also there are so many user generated content curated by medium team.

We all know the benefits of reading, it not only helps with fluid intelligence but reading is a skill that keeps on giving. It helps you move about the world with greater ease. You make smarter decisions about yourself and those around you.

So why Instagram is valued 100x more than medium?

We have a media system designed for ages around negativity to trick, cajole, and steal every second of the most precious resource in the world — people’s time.

Things must be negative but not too negative. Hopelessness, despair — these drive us to do nothing. Pity, empathy — those drive us to do something, like get up from our computers to act.

But anger, fear, excitement, laughter, and outrage — these drive us to spread. They drive us to do something that makes us feel as if we are doing something when in reality we are only contributing to what is probably a superficial and utterly meaningless conversation.

Online games and social media apps operate on the same principles and exploit the same impulses: Be consuming without frustrating, manipulative without revealing the strings.

On Instagram users are being ‘conditioned’ with negativity which keeps them addicted, Going back for even more ‘likes’ than their previous post — essentially competing with themselves and others all the time.

How depressing is that? They can’t relate to people in the ‘real’ world, Which to them is ‘unreal’.

Medium is not like any other social media platform on the internet. It helps you find compelling ideas, knowledge, and perspectives.

Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest take on topics that matter.

Lifelong learning and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge can enrich your understanding of different topics and make you a better person every day.

Your career, personal life, and total well-being will never be the same if you can commit to some of these awesome resources.

It is true that there’s only one life. There are no repeats. You only get one life, But if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Now it is your choice if you want to waste your precious time watching pictures of others on Instagram

or

Use a platform like medium which will help you read topics and improve the quality of your life.

“Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make.”― Sunday Adelaja