Language characteristics and tactics of naming Facebook accounts of Mahasarakham University students

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the characteristics of the language and the tactics of naming Facebook user accounts of Mahasarakham University students        by using the research methodology, the document together with the data storage from the questionnaires. The study has chosen 400names of Mahasarakham University students’ username, divided into 200 males and 200 females.

           The study indicated that Language characteristics in naming a Facebook user account the number of syllables was found from the number of syllables 1-11 syllables. The most common was the number of 5 syllables. The alphabets used to name the user account. Facebook found 2languages, including Thai alphabets and the English alphabets. The most common are English alphabet use of punctuation marks Found that all 3 types of punctuation are used, including single quotation marks Period, and hyphen. The most common are Single quotation mark. The results of the strategy for naming user accounts on Facebook. On how to set up a Facebook account found a way to name a Facebook account, meaning in 6 ways, meaning the names of living things, non-living things, symptoms, characteristics and etc. The most common is how to name Facebook account in the name meaning the structure used to name the user account on Facebook found 2 types of structure which are single structure and mixed structure the most common are single structures.