AN ANALYSIS OF WRITING ERRORS IN PUBLIC FIGURES’ CAPTION ON INSTAGRAM

Abstract

Social media is a media which is used by an individual to become social, or to be social online by sharing content, news, picture, etc. with others. Instagram is currently one of the most active social media platforms in the world. Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social media network owned by Facebook. Instagram allows users to upload photos and videos, which can be edited with various filters and organized with tags and location information. English is one of the languages that public figures often use as a caption on their Instagram post. However, there are many errors that made by public figures, the research problem is what are the type or writing errors and the purpose of the research is to find out the types of writing errors that frequently occur. This research used qualitative method and got the data from content analysis on public figures’ Instagram. From the findings, the writer got two types of errors that frequently occur, there are punctuation and capitalization.