The document discusses various language features used in social media communication including the use of mental processes to describe how people feel about social media, using simple present tense to state how social media is used as a communication tool, enumerating points with firstly, secondly, and lastly, using evaluative language to discuss how social media has shifted behaviors and become an obsession for some, and employing causal conjunctions like because and as a consequence to link ideas.
The document discusses various language features used in social media communication including the use of mental processes to describe how people feel about social media, using simple present tense to state how social media is used as a communication tool, enumerating points with firstly, secondly, and lastly, using evaluative language to discuss how social media has shifted behaviors and become an obsession for some, and employing causal conjunctions like because and as a consequence to link ideas.
The document discusses various language features used in social media communication including the use of mental processes to describe how people feel about social media, using simple present tense to state how social media is used as a communication tool, enumerating points with firstly, secondly, and lastly, using evaluative language to discuss how social media has shifted behaviors and become an obsession for some, and employing causal conjunctions like because and as a consequence to link ideas.
Using mental processes Obsession, fun, worry, indifferent, lazy
Using simple present tense Social Media is a communication tool for sharing information; Social Media is a platform where someone can create a personal web page and connect with everyone who belong to the same platform to share information and communicate Using enumeration Firstly, Secondly, The last thing Using evaluative language But the creation of social media makes a shift in people behavioral patterns; For the people of Indonesia especially among young people, the social media seems to have become an obsession; The last thing, social media can keep us away from the people closest to us Using causal conjuction Because, As a consequence, due to that