Abstract :
This study is based on the incidence of crime caused by social media.
Facebook has become the social media which is still ranked first as the most
popular media and in demand all people worldwide. Cases of theft, rape, fraud
and even murder that afflicts adolescents due to using facebook is still going on.
This research is concerned with the ability of media literacy in adolescents aged
12-21 years in using facebook, which is focused on understanding and ability in
mengatahui also take advantage of features that exist in facebook.
The method in this research is descriptive quantitative data collection
process is carried out using a questionnaire technique results in this study indicate
that adolescent media literacy skills in utilizing the features of the facebook in the
high category is 73% while the remaining 27% fall into the category of being. It
means there is still a teenager who is not yet fully have the literacy skills of media,
for that it is necessary because media literacy can help to use the media more
intelligently.
Keywords: Ability, media Literacy, Youth, Facebook