The Language Of Fakebook Analysis

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Katie Roiphe’s article, “The Language of Fakebook” asserts in the article that teens are addicted to standing out on social media. To begin, the authors of “My Darklyng” wrote their book with an idea of creating an imitation of a modern day teenagers on social media and made their character as seemingly dramatic and high pitched as the rest of the teens on Facebook. The author Katie Roiphe stated in the first section that, “They are in a perpetual high pitch of pleasure or a high pitch of crisis or sometimes just a high pitch of high pitch”(1). This shows that teens are always exaggerating on social media. For example, on Facebook many teens post and say phrases like “omggggggggg.” Not only does the author write about how teens are dramatic