Creativity

New media has given us more tools to play with on the internet without the need of becoming a programmer or a C++ expert. Before, for you to have a website, you would have to know the coding in order to create it to your own liking. Now, there are plenty of tools that lets you simply drag things around and create a nice website without any expertise. I feel tat the more freedom the user has with these tools, the more creative the person is. This is because they can do literally whatever they want without having to worry about limitations or concerns. Twitter is a perfect example since it is one of the most unregulated social media as it comes to censorship and what users say and do. Having this freedom, it lets its users feel comfortable enough to bring in the best of themselves on twitter and show it to the world. The best thing about it, is that Twitter itself can benefit from the freedom it gives its users. They do so by adding the content that users suggest. This is discussed in more detail in the article "Twitter serves up ideas from its followers" by Claire Cain Miller. In this article she discusses how the idea of the hash tag and the "@" to tag people did not come from the executives or the developers of twitter, but from the users themselves. So at some point, if someone comes up with a good idea to add to twitter, these person can simply suggest it to the public. If it is accepted and widely used; then twitter incorporates it to their core features. It sounds hard to believe that a huge corporation like twitter would take suggestions from a random person, but it makes a lot of sense in the big picture. Twitter can hire a few hundred engineers to come up with ideas or they can watch the ideas from their many million users.

Creating original and attractive content is another way that new media fosters creativity. A user who wants to have many followers has to think: "what do people like and how can I provide them with that content". After the user answers that, they have to come up with original content about whatever topic they chose in order to get a decent amount of followers. This requires a lot of thinking and a lot of creativity to keep people interested and entertained over a long period of time.