Beyond the selfie: 5 social media skills millennials don’t have

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/beyond-the-selfie-5-social-media-skills-millennials-dont-have/

They’re the generation brought up on Facebook. Some have never known a world without the Internet. The innermost details of their lives have been exhaustively Instagrammed and they get their news from Twitter not TV.

But when it comes to using social media in the workplace, Millennials – the generation whose birth years can range anywhere from 1980 and 2000 – can be surprisingly, even dangerously, unprepared. “Because somebody grows up being a social media native, it doesn’t make them an expert in using social media at work,” says William Ward, professor of social media at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “That’s like saying, ‘I grew up with a fax machine, so that makes me an expert in business.’”

Source: www.brw.com.au

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