Konten Pengungkapan Perasaan Pelaku Friend With Benefit (FWB) di Media Sosial (Analisis isi akun Instagram @fwb.bercerita)

Instagram @fwb.bercerita is an account that accommodates actors in Friends with Benefits (FWB) relationships to share stories, experiences and feelings anonymously. Through Instagram feed posts, FWB perpetrators reveal various aspects of their relationship, including the feelings of happiness, sadness, disappointment, neutrality that FWB perpetrators feel when they are in a FWB relationship. This research is to describe the extent of the content of messages expressing the feelings of FWB perpetrators in posts on the Instagram account @fwb.bercerita.

The concept used in this research is that communication in friendships contains variations in self-disclosure (Devito, 2007). Through social media, communication is not only for finding friends or just posting pictures for entertainment, but can also be a means for sharing information and can even be a medium for expressing feelings for someone or a cathartic medium for channeling their emotions through healthy and non-harmful methods that can reduce stimulation. emotional and a tendency to carry out aggressive attacks against other people (Wahyuningsih, 2017).

This research uses a content analysis method with a quantitative approach and descriptive data type. The object of this research is the Instagram feed of the @fwb.bercerita account which is analyzed from the three category structures used, namely the level of expression of feelings, the motive of the FWB perpetrator and the target of the FWB perpetrator. Data collection uses documentation techniques.

The results of the research show that of the 10 posts that have been studied, there is a level of expression of feelings referring to feelings of pleasure that is most often felt by FWB perpetrators. Then, the motive for most FWB perpetrators is mutual desire and the targets of most FWB perpetrators are college students. It can be concluded that FWB perpetrators can use the Instagram account @fwb.bercerita as a cathartic medium that accommodates perpetrators in expressing their feelings.