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Why Do You Follow Writers on Medium?
Follow me, please, please, please. I follow whoever follows me back; please show some love and follow me. I have no followers, wah, wah, waah. Slaaaaaaaaaaap! Shut up.
Cut. Hey fellow writers, it’s Nour, the director; we are shooting a scene here to teach new writers how not to be desperate to get followers; I need you to take the desperate writer roll, I will slap you hard, and you turn your face in slow motion and say Ouch!
Many people here seem so horny to gain followers; I have written an article about how many followers people need to feel happy and confident about their writing; check it out here.
Today my purpose is to teach fellow new writers how to attract followers genuinely without being desperate. As you can see, I have three thousand followers and growing, and I follow no one; ( I should draw an evil eye on my profile picture to keep envying people away). I’m not particularly eager to follow others for a follow-back.
Many writers here use the F4F strategy; they follow many people, others follow them back, then unfollow them and…
