Instagram Naming Phenomena among Adult and Children

European Journal of Behavioral Sciences

Year: 2019 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 1 | Page No: 6-17
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/EJBS.2019.05.11

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Instagram Naming Phenomena among Adult and Children

Siti Nurul Hamidah

ABSTRACT: 

Creating a username on Instagram is also a unique phenomenon among children and adult and analyzing how children and adult naming their Instagram will be the main focus of this research. Apparently children and adult have a different way of thinking and social interaction circle. Children could not use variation in creating Instagram username yet caused by limited social interaction they have in society however they use a combination of punctuation or numbers as a form of their creativity. Unlike the adult who has many different social circles, their Instagram naming pattern also varies.

Keywords: Instagram, language variation, sociolinguistic, username