The expression of emotions by men and women on "facebook"

The Expression of Emotions by Men and Women on "Facebook" Object of this work – the expression of emotions by men and women in Facebook posts. 1000 Facebook posts from the authorʼs of this work Lithuanian Facebook friends walls were analyzed. The purpose of this work is to compare lexical and graphical expression of emotions by gender and to compare results of this work to the results of other Facebook communities. The material of this work was 500 Facebook posts published by men and 500 posts published by women. Informants were 50 men and 50 women. 10 posts from each person were collected. The latest date when posts were published was the 31st of November 2016. Lexical and graphical expression of happiness, anger and sadness were analyzed. Lexical expression was examined by analyzing the use of nouns, most often used adjectives, interjections, ironical words and citations of songs. Graphical expression was analyzed in reduplication of letters, and punctuation marks, the use of capital letters and emoticons. In conclusion, Facebook is the typical environment for expression of the happiness: this emotion was expressed the most. However, women expressed happiness more often than men, while men more often expressed anger. Sadness was expressed in the same frequency. Typical female emotional expression is seen the use of diminutives, nouns, which signify people relationships and time, use of interjections, reduplication of letters and more frequent use of emoticons. Typical male emotional expression is seen in the use of nouns, which signify events, and in the use of ironical words. Typical emotional expression for both genders is seen in writing the whole word or phrase in capitals, reduplication of punctuation marks and in the use of standard emoticons