ABSTRACT
The widespread use of Facebook (FB) as social media greatly affects the development of the world’s languages. Many new forms of language have emerged as an impact of that medium. Crystal (2006) stated that conversations using the Internet as a medium tend to use a language variation, ‘netspeak,’ or spoken-writing. FB users prefer to write their conversations in the way they speak. The French language, which is known for its very complicated relationship between grapheme and phoneme, faces the same phenomenon. This paper is based on a research on the use of the French language on FB. The aim of the research is to describe what linguistic process occurs in the use of the French language on FB. The data used were taken from the status blocks of 111 accounts. From each account, we took five status blocks, so there are 555 files as corpus data. ‘Antconc,’ an application to determine the frequency of words in a corpus, was used in processing data. The result illustrates that there are some linguistic processes, such as abbreviation, morphophonemic, and a new phenomenon that are typical processes on FB.
