TY - BOOK AU - AU - Ian Rosales Casocot ED - ED - ED - Silliman Journal. 52 (1) : January - June 2011. pp. 46 ED - SN - 2 PY - 0000///46 CY - PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - FACEBOOK;SOCIAL NETWORK LITERATURE KW - TWITTER KW - sears;sears0 N1 - 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; 5 ER -