This article undertakes a linguistic description of the spontaneous and ‘on-demand’
conversational language on social media platforms, using some Facebook accounts
to explicate its pedagogical and aesthetic values from the premise that art is both
instructive and entertaining. The spontaneous and on-demand conversational
language of the Facebook is what this article refers to as ‘real-time’ language. This
has become a major part of the inherently essential style of the Facebook and which
qualifies it as a narrative similar to reality drama, if not exactly so. This study
uses the personal Facebook chats of four Nigerians to affirm that the popularity
of the Facebook Internet phenomenon in Nigeria is partly, but significantly, due to
the artistic function of its conversational language and its dramatic potentials apart
from the democratization, portability, accessibility and the interactiveness of the
new media