human’s behavior to gather, to get along with other, or to share in any particular way, time, and place.
Obviously, a man can find his or her companionship by himself or herself in order to share what he or she feels, but sometimes a man need a medium which
can help his or her to interconnect with other people. One of this medium is social networking website. Boyd and Ellison 2007 stated that social networking sites
allow individual to meet strangers or their existing friends and to articulate what they feel or do at that time.
The benefits of being a member of social networking websites are not only to meet new people and to maintain existing friends, or to share common interests,
but also be able to learn new culture and language from other country. This can be happened as long as individuals are connected with online computer.
Boyd and Ellison states that there are many social networking websites within cyber world, such as Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, and many more,
which facilitate online interaction between its own members but still, there are no reliable data regarding how many people use those social networking websites.
Though there are no reliable data regarding how many people use social networking websites, Facebook has been become phenomena. Many Indonesian
use Facebook as a medium to find their old friends, share their common interests, and recently it is used as a medium to invite other people for some occasions. The
researcher analyzes the features that Facebook has, namely
a. The wall
This feature facilitates Facebook users to post their messages in other user’s profile page.
b. Poke
It features a notification for someone that he or she has been poked by other Facebook user.
c. Photo
This is a place for Facebook users to upload their photos so that other Facebook users that have linked with this user can see and put some
comments on their photos.
d. Status
It allows Facebook users to inform their fiends of their whereabouts, actions, or feellings they may have.
e. News Feed
The News Feed will appear on every user’s homepage and highlight information including profile changes, upcoming events, status updates, and
even birthdays of the user’s friends.
f. Notes
This feature facilitates Facebook user to write short andor complex writing of his or her writing. This feature offers the same function as blog as well.
g. Chat
Chat is a Facebook feature which allows user to do real-time communication, so-called chatting, with other online users.
h. Gift
Facebook provides this feature to let Facebook users to give ‘virtual gift’ to their friends.
i. Online game
There are numbers of online game within Facebook such as, Poker, Farmvile, TankFish, etc. These online games are built so that Facebook users are not
bored.
j. Marketplace
This feature allows users to post free classified ads in which only users in same network can see it.
Therefore, because of these features, Facebook becomes a leading social networking website around years in Indonesia as well as in around the world,
though there are crimes that uses Facebook as a medium to deceive other Facebook users.
B. Theoretical Framework
In order to conduct this research, the researcher presents a theory in which appropriately suits as a framework to excavate and analyze the data of the
research. Moreover, theories used by the researcher will be a starting point to answer two problem formulations questioned by the researcher.
The researcher employs a theory of types of code switching, which are tag-switching, intrasentential switch, and intersentential switch, from Stockwell
2002 in order to answer the first problem formulation. This theory will be a basis to reveal the first problem formulation which is used to analyze types of
code switching occurs in Facebook, particularly those Facebook users whose pages contain the data that being targeted. This theory is selected because the
