1. Social Networking Vocabulary Cycle 2

2. Blog Vocabulary  blog – a personal or professional website which is updated on a regular basis with an individual’s or company’s thoughts/ideas/opinions  comments - feedback giving to most blogs that allow readers to add their own thoughts or opinions  subscribe – this is like becoming a fan or a member of a blog; subscribing allows a person to be notified when new blog posts are written

3. Blog Vocab 2  Avatars are graphical images representing people. They are what you are in virtual worlds.  Forums are discussion areas on websites, where people can post messages or comment on existing messages at the same time  Authenticity: Used to describe “real” people behind blog posts and other social profiles.

4. Web Vocab  Engage: If you are communicating to other social media users, you are engaging.  Traffic: This refers to the visitors that visit a website  chat – communicating in real-time through computers or smart phones, by writing messages back-and-forth, this is communication involving two or more people  chat room – an area within a website where ‘chats’ happen

5. Web Vocab 2  Social networking: online places where users can create a profile for themselves, and then socialize with others using a range of social media tools including blogs, video, images, tagging, lists of friends, forums and messaging.  Viral: Anything shared across social networks that get passed along rapidly. YouTube videos are a great example.  Trending: A word, phrase or topic that is popular on Twitter at a given moment.

6. Web Vocab 3  instant messaging/IM – this is like chatting, but is on-line communication, generally only between two people and sometimes this is not done in real-time  URL – this stands for Unique Resource Locator; it is the technical term for a web address like http://www.pgasd.com http://www.pgasd.com  e-Book: A book published in digital form.

7. Web Vocab 4  wiki – a web page, or group of pages, that can be edited or changed by a group of people. a web page with many contributors who are not paid for their contributions  app – Performs a specific function on your computer or handheld device. Apps can be anything from Web browsers and games to specialized programs like digital recorders, online chat or music players.