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ABSTRACT : Can social networking be a source of literature? This article posits that there is a possibility of Facebook and Twitter becoming a medium for literary expression. While many contemporary Filipino writers consider time spent on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to be a waste of time, a growing number of writers have begun looking at the possibilities of the status update as a form of literature, akin to the haiku, that is very much a form dictated by the Internet age.





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