Variety of languages on the status of Facebook users

Abstract

Research on the variety of formal languages in social networking sites facebook and is a study that provides new knowledge about the development of Indonesian used. In accordance with the nature of language, language is dynamic and can develop. The purpose of this research is to describe the variety of languages in terms of formality in facebook user status and describe the variety of languages in terms of usage in facebook user status. This form of research uses qualitative approaches to methods in this research and the methods used are descriptive methods of data collected in the form of words, images and not numbers. Based on the results of research conducted it can be concluded that there are, variations in language in terms of usage there are five examples of words that show the existence of characteristics or forms in the field of education, three examples in the field of literature, two fields of medicine, one in the field of religion. In addition, there is also a variety of languages in terms of formality consisting of a variety of businesses, relaxed varieties, and familiar varieties. In addition to getting informal words, the results of this study also revealed the use of informal language variations. The unaradishness of the word used, errors resulting from inappropriate placement of words, diction errors, words that experience errors due to their formation.