The rapid changing of technology nowadays surely brings another atmosphere of various benefits for people. Internet as the product of technology then comes to be a medium of learning. Internet provides people a huge number of services which enable people to work or learn easily. Internet based community such as Facebook then can be used as a medium to accommodate students learning English skill better. Learning English skill such as writing is usually boring for students since they have to do assignments again and again in the classroom or take them as homework. Not enough time and clogged ideas make some of them finding it tiresome. However, by using Facebook students can easily write anything, anywhere, and anytime. They also can publish their work right after they wrote. In addition, their writing can be directly commented by their friends since Facebook enables its user to communicate easily. This article reports the finding on how Facebook is used as the tool to motivate students’ interest in writing, in this case creative writing. The finding shows that Facebook can initiate students’ interest in writing. Facebook provides the students some advantages which make their writing time more fun and enjoyable. They can write freely, publish their writing directly, and get responses of their writing from friends.
Keywords: Facebook, initiate, interest, students, writing
