I heard recently that the University of New Hampshire was going to be ending its journalism major soon.
This wasn’t news to me, not at all.
I started my blog in 2004, and frankly I saw the writing on the chalkboard years ago that traditional media, journalism and communications as a whole was soon to be in the rear view mirror.
Basic writing and public speaking skills are as important as ever, but how, where and when messages are shared is right up there in priority.
We as organizations, institutions, businesses, as a society, shouldn’t be running for the hills when it comes to social media and digital communications in any way, shape or form.
We should be running towards all these emerging, new technologies, not away from them.
Social media is not the problem, it’s how some people use these online channels.
We should be teaching more Internet-based skills, technologies and communications at a relatively young age, not the other way around.
We are doing a disservice to younger generations especially if we try to ban social media or take away phones.
We should be preparing them for the real world, not sheltering them from it.
We should be embracing all these modern technologies that allow people to communicate with one another wherever they are, whatever they are doing, finding better ways to incorporate them into our day-to-day personal and professional lives.
We shouldn’t be running away from social media, we should be running toward it.
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