The way Facebook is mapped, it can be
compared to how the blogs work. In a blog you have the opportunity to share
anything you like, sort of like a diary. Diaries used to be associated with
something that you wrote for yourself, maybe including your deepest secrets.
Blogs are compared to writing a diary, just that you selectively think about
what you are going to write; because you have an audience (McNeill,L, 2011). This is
similar to the way your Facebook wall is mapped. You have the opportunity to
write what ever you like, either as a status or on someone else’s wall.
The writers on Facebook do follow some
conventions that are used to attract readers. What is common among my friends
on Facebook is that they do not write in a formal way. They usually use slang
or have shortened words like: LOL (laughing out loud) or OMG (oh my god). In an
addition to that, the statuses that get the most like are the one that contain
word play or sarcasm. Being funny on Facebook will attract more readers than
statuses that do not use humour. When the other members feel like they can
relate to what is being written, they are more likely to comment or like the
status. You can almost say that Facebook is becoming its own genre, with rules
of what to write and not (Luyn Van, 2013)
REFERENCE LIST
McNeill, L. (2011) Diary 2.0?: A genre moves from page to screen, in Rowe, C. & Wyss, E.L. (Eds) Language and new media: Linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions (pp. 313-325). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
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