44 Tahuri, Volume 14,Nomor 2,Agustus 2017 Tupamahu, Sociolinguistic Perspective Of Gender SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF GENDER PATTERNS ON FACEBOOK Marissa Swanda Tupamahu Program Study Bahasa Inggris PPs Universitas Pattimura marissaswandatupamahu@gmail.com Abstract. The purpose of this research is to look for the differences and similarities among the way sexes use internet particularly social networking site, Facebook. The differences exist on multiple levels and all these have been exhibited through language and the choices they make. The findings show that women mostly write about themselves, about their own emotions, andthe way a female leaves all information blank and a male give all for public display certainly speaks volumes about their privacy concerns. Keywords: Gender, Sociolinguistics, Facebook. Abstrak. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari perbedaan dan persamaan antara cara pria dan wanita menggunakan internet terutama situs jejaring sosial, Facebook. Perbedaannya ada pada berbagai tingkatan dan semua ini telah diperlihatkan melalui bahasa yang digunakan dan pilihan yang mereka buat. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa kebanyakan wanita menulis tentang diri mereka sendiri, tentang emosi mereka sendiri,tidak mengisi semua informasi dan pria yang memberikan semua informasi pribadi untuk ditampilkan ke publik. Kata kunci: Gender, Sosiolinguistik, Facebook. Introduction As technological advances, and the possibilities they offer, have become more widely integrated into society, young people are among tho- se adopting new technologies into everyday practices (Kreps, 2010). Among the advantages offered by the digital age is the ability for increased communication. Whether this co- mmunication is synchronous, as in live chat streams, or asynchronous, as in message boards, people now have the ability to make, or remain, in contact with others via the global in- ternet community. Moreover, the rise in popularity of social network sites (SNS) in recent years has further fostered the ability for contact with others, regardless of geographic locale. The increasing prevalence of online social media for informal communication has enabled large- scale statistical analysis of the co- nnection between language and social variables such as gender, age, race, and geographical origin. Whether the goal of such research is to understand stylistic differences or to build pre- dictive models of ‘latent attributes’, there is often an implicit assumption that linguistic choices are associated with immutable and essential catego- ries of people. Indeed, strong aggre- gate correlations between language and such categories enable predictive