No Point to Share Article on Whatsapp
Are you still following mainstream?
1. People dont like advertisement
Sharing the link of my article to Whatsapp contact is like an advertisement.
It’s like a business without human connection.
Most businesss ignore people’s feeling because they really can’t care too much if they were to earn more money.
Business and advertisement is about efficiency, not about people’s feeling.
So even though I knew if i share my articles one by one without copy and pasting, sending customized messages including some personalized greeting, people would feel much better
I still can’t do it
It’s too time-consuming.
I can’t just spend 2 hours on sharing my articles without the ability to make sure all of them would read it.
I feel tired of sharing.
So i decided to use the “broadcast function” on whatsapp, it allows me to send message to 256 people once at a time!
But now i need to worry if this seems too “advertisement” to my acquaintance, those i care.
It’s not hard for people to recognize i am not only sending my work to them but also hundreds of people, therefore, they feel way less special, therefore, they would feel
“it doesn't matter if i read it or not, Eric send it to so many other people anyway, he doesn't care”
I know the solution however
Gladly, i still value human connection over my interest, after all my articles is mostly about integrating humanity.
I still ask their consent before sending them
I still write their name in the message one by one instead of conveniently broadcasting the message all at once disregarding people’s name
I still send them personalized message like “how’s your animal experiment recently” in the “sharing article message” if i know i’m talking to my scientist friend.
But again, I dont like doing this additional job not only because the process is boring but also i can’t make sure they will pay attention and read it.
Where can i find the attention?
In learning, students do 95% of the job, only 5% is for teacher.
Same applies to learning through article.
Those who really want to learn will find resources by themselves without waiting people to push them, therefore, simply putting on Medium is enough.
“Good work can be promoted without promotion”
2. Sharing is not improving
Some people argue that the more i share with people, the more chances people would give me feedback, therefore, i could learn more.
But what’s the point of waiting for their feedback when i could have learn from new information on youtube or medium instantly?
What’s the point of having a bunch of unprofessional feedbacks when i could find expert solving the questions on internet?
There is no point of sharing when it does not require brain to work.
3.Insufficient purpose
My purpose of sending my articles is that I believe my work to help them.
I believe my articles could improve their life.
I believe after they improve their life they would influence others as well.
But the premise is
They gotta be ready to improve themselves.
Which in reality is not.
It’s not hard to imagine most of the Whatsapp contact who read my articles, reading it for the sake of comforting me, or not hurting my feeling.
Some might argue that even though the reason why they read my article has diverged from my original hoping reason— helping people who wants to self-improve, they still read it afterall.
But since my interest in“my learning” is still greater than “their learning”, i would rather concentrate my attention on improving my thoughts, articles, and then, gathering them all together at a place where people who are ready to improve themselves could easily google it.
202010 Eric(naruto) Sofia
