Social media is part of nearly everyone’s daily life now. We are tweeting our thoughts, updating our Instagram profiles with pictures, reading blogs, and catching up with our friends and family members on Facebook. No matter how much or how little you use it, social media an important part of our society now, and it’s good to understand simple social media terms that people are using.
Here is a list of common social media terms to learn:
• Avatar – A graphical representation of the user, or of the user’s alter ego or character.
• Hashtag (#) – Commonly used on Twitter and Facebook to annotate a message. It is used to show that a message is related to a certain topic or keyword.
• Blog – A personal website that consists of entries that can be on a single topic or many different ones.
• Like – Used on Facebook and Instagram to give positive feedback to a user. On Facebook, “likes” are also used to connect with things you may be interested in, such as a business or a product.
• Tweet – A message sent through Twitter.
• Retweet – Used on Twitter to repost another user’s message.
• RSS Feed – Stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a content delivery vehicle that uses a family of standard web formats to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, and more.
• Podcast – A digital audio file (though it can sometimes be video) made available for download to a portable device or computer for later playback.
Many of these are basic social media terms that you have probably seen before, whether it was by using a specific website or app, or hearing the lingo in everyday life. Now, you’ll have a better understanding of what these terms mean and how they relate to different social media websites.
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