Politeness in Social Media Case study: Algerian Facebookers.

Abstract

Social media's presence in our daily lives has both a beneficial and negative impact on communication styles. Politeness in social media is a communication tactic that the speaker employs to attain objectives. It's critical to maintain the appropriate amount of civility. This paper aims to analyze’ politeness in communicating through the social media. The study was conducted by providing a questionnaire to 150 students (ages between 18-29 years) which was published in an Algerian Facebook page (the page Article witch has 393 K subscribers). The results of the study prove that impoliteness is most available in Algerian Facebook than politeness. However, their communication politeness has decreased, as the survey shows that the ethics of communicating through social media are nor good or polite.