Status of the active word treasury used by secondary school 7 and 8 grade students in social media (Instagram) according to the gender variable (An example of the province of Bağcılar in Istanbul)

The aim of this study is to determine the active vocabulary used by 7th and 8th grade students in social media (Instagram). This study is in the scanning model, and the specified sources were examined by document analysis method. The sample of the study consists of 32 students in the 7th and 8th grades studying in a public school with a moderate socioeconomic level in Bağcılar district of Istanbul in the academic year of 2018-2019. The data obtained by examining the students' Instagram posts were examined according to the gender variable, and thus, the active vocabulary that the students used in Instagram was determined. Emphasis on the relationship between writing and vocabulary in social media, the working group's use of active vocabulary in Instagram, the frequency of the words used, the number of words differ by gender, idiom, proverb, dilemma, poetic graffiti usage and other vocabulary of this study studies have tried to reveal similar and different aspects. As a result of the study, 7 and 8 grade female students, 3431 total words, 960 kinds of words; It was determined that 7th and 8th grade male students used 2244 total words and 850 kinds of words. Based on these data, it is seen that female students use more total words and different kinds of words than boys. Keywords: Social media, Vocabulary, Writing habit, Instagram