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In the age of social media, individuals are acquiring more creativity.

When looking closely at what social media has become, one can see how it is part of our daily lives. Social media is essentially a tool for the benefit of our creativity.

Social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat support different types of media including images, video and audio. Each of these act as a platform for artists to express themselves in a variety of ways.

As technology develops, people are better able to present their ideas to a much wider audience than ever before, encouraging people that otherwise wouldn’t be interested in making art.

The internet is a major source of creative ideas that millions access daily, each bringing their own influence on the online world.

In The Guardian article titled, “Is technology making us more creative?” Tomas ChamorroPremuzic writes that there is a large number of innovative products and services in the digital revolution that transformed a significant part of our lives.

“There has been an explosion of creative activity in the technology space: there are over 3m apps, and 300 hours of YouTube video are uploaded every minute,”

Chamorro-Premuzic wrote.

“According to some estimates, every two minutes we snap as many pictures as the entire population of the world did in the 1800s.”

Some may argue that individuals aren’t creative anymore because ideas are being used from the internet, it takes an inspired, creative mindset to be engaging and get people’s attention.

Being a part of social media requires a tremendous supply of creative ideas for content. Any post in diverse forms show creativity on behalf of the publisher as it is their own personal beliefs on display. It’s not making us less creative, it’s giving us a boost to get our ideas recognized and getting inspiration from previous individuals.

Social media for many is a way to stay in touch with contemporary culture and that is the basis for most artistic ideas.

On YouTube, some videos posted daily receive hundreds of millions of views, greatly influencing major audiences and ultimately spreading ideas and creativity.

As YouTube stars post videos and get a huge amounts of feedback from their subscribers. Fans are able to give them ideas, therefore expanding their creativity as society continues to see examples of how collaboration and social creativity play a significant role to the modern age.

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Is there more to social media than a retweet, share or reblog?

If one scrolls through their social media feed they will find a plethora of original ideas, but how many of those are their own?

Although we live in a digital era and ideas can be shared instantaneously, not everyone has something original to add. Creativity has become scarce among the public since people can simply look to social media and see what others before them have done.

The internet is home to a lot of innovative and unique ideas regarding food, fashion, movies, music and more. This means when people see something on their social media dashboard that they find interesting, they simply share it. Now, this isn’t a bad thing because ideas are meant to be shared.

However, the problem lays with the fact that people do not take the time to creatively add to an idea. Social media gives people this “follow the group” mentality. Instead of contributing something worthwhile, people tend to just imitate others that came before them with a retweet or share.

In the Psychology Today article titled, “The Science Behind Why People Follow the Crowd,” Rob

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Henderson wrote that humans are not always as knowledgeable of their thoughts as they believe to be.

“We use the decisions of others as a heuristic, or mental shortcut, to navigate our lives,” Henderson wrote.

Social media gives people new ideas, without letting people discover new ideas on their own. This type of idea sharing does not offer people a chance to exercise divergent thinking. As a result, social media does not foster creativity among the masses.

The ability to retweet and share someone’s original post on social media conditions one to just perpetuate content, instead of creating it.

For example, I am a person who uses the cooking videos on Facebook as a cookbook. I follow those recipes precisely with no margin for error. While my dishes always turn out as the video shows it will, rarely do I add anything of my own to the recipe.

Therefore, when I must prepare a dish that I did not see on a Tastemade video, I am completely clueless.

Despite being a wellspring for knowledge and culture, social media often discourages creative thinking. People are inclined to share posts and ideas that do not belong to them instead of creating original content.

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