3 reasons grammar matters in a Facebook post
I know a woman with two master’s degrees and a high-paying executive job. So I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she’s so busy with important responsibilities that she doesn’t have time to think much about how she writes facebook posts—admittedly not the most critical communication in the world!
Her facebook posts do not contain any of the following:
Capitalized first words in a sentence
A complete sentence
Punctuation
Proper spelling of simple words
These facebook posts seem more like random, quick, unedited, incomplete thoughts.
Okay, maybe that’s just her “style.”
But it makes me shake my head and wonder about how she writes in a business communication. She has two master’s degrees, after all.
Here are 3 reasons how you write in a Facebook post matters:
1. As a writer, if you write poorly in a Facebook post, your reader may assume your book is poorly written, too.
2. You give the appearance that you don’t care about your reader.
3. Lazy writing with typos, no punctuation and no capitalized words makes you look uneducated.
The reason we have accepted styles of grammar and punctuation is to be able to communicate effectively.
And you know what happens when you’re misunderstood in a Facebook post—your “friends” can go nuts with comments and start arguing with each other!
The business of public relations teaches that appearances are everything.
And I think that applies to how one appears in writing on Facebook, as well.
Carolyn V. Hamilton 