An Analysis of the Influence of the Written Communication Quality of the Social Networking Site Comments Made by Others on the Recruiters’ Evaluation of Job Candidates

The information that is posted to social networking sites as has had many effects on the personal and professional lives of the people that use them. However, much of the studies that investigate these effects have focused on the information posted by the people that own the social networking site profile while little attention has been given to how social networking site users are affected by the information posted by others. This paper presents a conceptual model and proposed study to investigate the effects that the quality of the written communication made by others has on the perceived written communication skills of the social networking site profile owner by job recruiters and their desirability as a potential employee.