THE USE OF PROCESS IN MALE AND FEMALE'S TEXT STATUS OF FACEBOOK

his study focused on the use of process in male and female’s text status of Facebook. The objectives were to describe the patterns of process and to reasons for male and female’s use process in Facebook status. This study was used descriptive qualitative methode because the object of the study was Facebook status in male and female. The sample was randomly taken from 1250 population of Facebook users there were 329 clauses in text status.The research instrument of this study is documentary sheet. Technique of analyzing the data was descriptive technique, while the steps in analyzing the data are as follows: identyfing the clauses in Facebook status, classifying the clauses into types of process, and describing each process. Based on the table of the finding, it can be concluded that mental process has the most dominant process found in Facebook status and dominant use by male. From the analysis, it is found that 127 (38.6%) material process, 50 (15.1%)mental process, 122 (37.0%) relational process, 15 (4.5%) verbal process, 6 (1.8%) behavioral process, and 18 (5.4%) existential process.