Copying Might Not Be That Bad

In response to Lauren's recent post about social media companies copying others and their lack of originality, it's my belief that copying ideas--although it makes sense that the popularity of an aspect of one site would transfer to another--it ultimately comes off as lazy. Although, adding things like hashtags and private messaging makes our different social media sites more personalized and gives us more that we can do with that technology. So, maybe there are some positive aspects to what seems like copying. Some people may only use certain social media sites, so they might appreciate that features originally on a site they don't use were added onto the site(s) that they do actually use.