Thus, using Facebook as a learning media is believed can be an alternative method in teaching writing. Besides the fact that the users of Facebook are mostly
university students, Facebook is an interesting media that will make the students not get bored in learning writing. Also, by using Facebook, students tend to be
more active and share their ideas easier than they usually do in the classroom. It is a good opportunity for students to explore their knowledge without feeling
insecure.
2.2.4 Commenting on Facebook Group to help reviewing
Facebook, as one of the Social Networking Site SNS provides many features that allow the users to communicate each other easily through its
network. One of the popular features commonly used is Facebook group. According to Facebook, Facebook Groups are the place for small group
communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinions. Groups allow people to come together around a common cause, issue or
activity to organize, express objectives, discuss issues, post photos and share related content. FB groups also provides space in which ideas are posted in view
of all, to be open to criticism as well as praise Yunus Salehi, 2012 There are three types of facebook groups depend on its privacy setting:
Open: Anyone can view the group, its members, and their posts.
Closed: Anyone can view the group and its members, but only members can
see group posts.
Secret: Only members can see the group or any of its information. People who
are not members won‘t even be able to see that the group exists.
Besides, Facebook group allows for almost immediate feedback and fun interaction Yunus Salehi, 2012. The members can post their ideas in the
group, then others can give their comments in the comment column that is available in every post as the feedback and one of the ways to interact each other.
Commenting on someone‘s post means giving an opinion about the post. Basically, we develop opinions by making up our mind about what we observe
with our own eyes Guth, 1964:59. By commenting, we are instinctively reviewing what the post is. We give a kind of feedback through our comment on
the post.
A continuous comment not only give a feedback to the writer, but also increase the commentator‘s ability of critical review. To do the review well, we
have to understand the topic from different perspectives. However, usually people commented on the post only based on their point of view. It is an opinion, indeed,
but we cannot include it as a review.
It is not enough if we only stated what we are thinking of the post and call it reviewing. We can compare, for example, with another post in the group with the
same topic and stated our thought based on the observation. That kind of comment is what we call reviewing.
Maybe one comment is not qualified enough to be a review text. However, a continuous comment, on the same topic, can be qualified as a review text if it is
followed the generic structure of the review text.
2.3 Theoretical Framework
