Unit 7 Social Media Vocabulary ICT 1
Blog
a Web site, maintained by an individual or group with commentary, descriptions of events, or other media such as graphics or video.
Wiki
a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with access to contribute or modify content.
Podcast
a digital, audio, or visual file that can be downloaded to a computer or mobile device.
a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and and read other users/updates known as "tweets."
a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned.
Snapchat
a mobile messaging service from Snap Inc. that sends a photo or video to someone that lasts only up to 10 seconds before it disappears. During that time, the recipient can take a screen shot, and the sender is notified that it was taken.
Youtube
a place to upload a video of (someone or something) to the video-sharing website
Tumblr
a popular micro-blogging platform designed for creative self-expression. It is considered a mindful alternative to Facebook and other social media websites where users blog on a myriad of topics.
Application
a program that is accessed via Web browser over the Internet.
MySpace
a social networking Web site with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos.
Skype
allows you to connect with people through voice calls, video calls (using a webcam) and text messaging. You can even conduct group conference calls.
Flipagram
an app to give everyone the power to create and share compelling, visual stories that inspire, entertain and inform.
Forum
an online equivalent of a bulletin board.
Smartphone
any cell phone that has the ability to connect to the Internet.
Google+
is a Google social networking platform. The design team sought to replicate the way people interact offline more closely than is the case in other social networking services, such as Facebook and Twitter. The project's slogan is "Real-life sharing rethought for the web."
Vine
is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six seconds.
Musical.ly
is an Chinese video social network app for video creation and live broadcasting.
is an online service that allows you to share images through social networking. An example is: the website where you have a "pinboard" that allows you to post ideas that you want to remember and then share them with your friends through Facebook.
is the name of an online photo sharing social Web service that lets you share your life with friends through a series of pictures captured with a mobile device.
Social Media
used to describe various websites or other forms of technology where people can connect and interact with one another and share information.
