HW Creativity

New Media greatly fosters creativity where individuals are allowed freedom of expression. Social medias such as Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube allow users to get creative and post any content they would like which in turn, may result in lucrative outcomes. Successful Youtubers with millions of subscribers earn a lot of money and ordinary people on Instagram may be scouted and become models. In the article "Twitter Serves Up Ideas from Its Followers" users can contribute their ideas to better improve Twitter. For instance, in 2007 Chris Messina came up with the idea of using the hashtag # symbol to mark conversations about a certain topic. Now to this day when you think of Twitter, the main symbol that represents twitter is the hashtag.

Therefore, new media fosters creativity and as seen through the article, their unique ideas can contribute greatly, to improve the social media platform.