Le discours de la francophonie

Adriana Teodorescu – New Technologies, New Worlds…Regarding age, the young account for the vast majority ofusers, followed closely by middle-aged adults. The high proportionof young users is reflected in the main preference for subjectmatter such as entertainment and social media.Women users are more likely to post personal subject matter,whereas male users are less focused on the personal side. Thus,personal content seems to be the dominant theme of women users,while men tend to be more interested in information, favoring politics,business, and sport. Much time is spent communicatingwith close friends about events in personal lives, or sharing breakingnews, discussing political issues and learning about newtrends. For both men and women, social networking is a leisureactivity and not a source of income. Another peculiar feature ofthe Facebook ‘phenomenon’ is the proportion between writtenand visual content, as the visual content exceeds by far the writtenone. Computer-mediated discourse among Facebook users is characterizedby the prevalence of social and emotion words, a highrate of abbreviations, emoticons and quotes, colloquial language,133