Most instagram celebrities upload on their stories questions and polls to their followers on different issues. Mostly they ask the followers on different places to visit or their favorite colors or their favorite meals.by viewing on the stories the followers vote differently and the winners give the celebrity an answer on what to wear or eat.
Recently a new app is improvised but a bit more of Instagram and Facebook stories where you pay and control other individual’s life.
NewNew is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Courtney Smith. The app, which is still in its “beta” or pre-full release stage, describes itself as “a human stock market where you buy shares in the lives of real people, in order to control their decisions and watch the outcome”.
For many of us that sound a bit ominous, but the reality is actually far less alarming. It is aimed at what it calls “creators” – writers, painters, musicians, fashion designers, bloggers etc.
It is designed as a way for them to connect far more closely with their fans or followers than on other social media services and, importantly, monetize that connection.
When a so-called creator sets up a NewNew account and attracts followers, he or she is encouraged to ask them via video clips to vote on aspects of both their work and personal life.
Co-founder and chief executive Ms. Smith, a Canadian, has big plans for NewNew, and has some heavyweight backers. Investors include Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, and the first outside person to put money into Facebook.
Others with a stake in the business include leading US tech investment fund Andreessen Horowitz, and Hollywood actor Will Smith (no relation to Courtne). Snap chat has also given technical support.
In addition to voting, followers can also pay extra – from $20 – to ask a NewNew creator to do something of their choosing, such as naming a character in a book after them. But the creator can reject all of these “bids”, and if they do so then the follower doesn’t have to part with the money.
