I just read these two articles (link, link) from the New York Times; the two have the common theme of strong communication abilities as key to executive success. While these two articles are about a year old, they were still published during the rise of social media both as a prominent business tool, and as a social tool for individuals, and yet neither mention the platform. What I want to know is, does using social media help, or hinder, someone's chance of become a c-suite or other top-level executive, does it hurt your communication skills because of bad grammar, or does it make you more creative?
If you look at instant messaging and texting, you can tell it has had anything but a positive effect on people. I'll admit that I write terribly, in barely intelligible segments (I refuse to call them sentences) when I do either. Along with this, Twitter definitely does nothing positive for grammar and sentence structure.
On the other hand, Twitter seems to help make us creative writers... I have never worker harder making and keeping content short and to the point then when I was trying to get a stubbornly long sentence into 140 characters. Blogging, while informal, also seems like it could have positive benefits, especially for those people who have not written a lot. The great thing about blogging is that it actually gets you writing, and writing (hopefully) often. Brandon Sanderson made a comment about the fact that it took him a long time to really settle his writing style, which is something I hope blogging will do for me... give me a medium where I can find and perfect my own writing style (I cannot find his blog post on it, if I find it, I will link it).
So what do you think... does social media content writing help, or hurt, your communications ability?
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