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Digital Lit Social
Social Media Vocab
Question | Answer |
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App | Short for application, independent program or piece of software designed to for a specific purpose |
Emoticon | Using characters on the keyboard to represent an emotion |
Emoji | Specific small pictures or icons users can choose to add to posts or messages |
Friend | A person you want to connect with on Facebook |
Feed | An updated stream of content like latest posts, photos, etc. |
Geotag | Label the location of where a photograph was taken |
Hashtag | A way to label, group, or organize posts by using as a number sign # and then words |
Lurker/Creeper | Spying on people online while remaining invisible |
Meme | Taking a photograph and adding a saying or comment usually funny. It’s kind of like a digital poster and usually becomes viral. |
Microblogging | Short message postings from a social media account |
Selfie | Taking a photograph of one’s self |
Throwback Thursday | #TBT - Widely used hashtag on Instagram, FB, etc. when people post pictures from the past |
Platform | Computer software or hardware that acts as a foundation that has other items added to it for a specialized purpose |
Tag | Labels what content is about |
Trending | A word, phrase or topic that is popular on Twitter (or other social media) at a given moment |
Viral | Anything shared across social networks that get passed along rapidly to a large group of people |
Web 2.0 | Refers to the second generation of the Web which means people create content and post it without needing specialized technical knowledge and/ or training |
Social Media/Networking | A platform with the purpose of building connections among people who may share common interests, activities,or backgrounds |
Like/Favorite | The virtual version of a “thumbs up” |
Troll | Someone who posts mean content on purpose with the intention of causing trouble |