User:Jb1986/Glossary of social media terms

This page is a glossary of social media terms.

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Avatar: An avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks.

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Bitly: Bitly is a free URL shortening service that provides statistics for the links users share online. Bitly is popularly used to condense long URLs to make them easier to share on social networks such as Twitter.

Blog: Blog is a word that was created from two words: “web log.” Blogs are usually maintained by an individual or a business with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Blogger: Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google that allows individuals and companies to host and publish a blog typically on a subdomain.

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Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study, and live around them. Facebook is the largest social network in the world with more than one billion users.

Flickr: Flickr is a social network based around online picture sharing. The service allows users to store photos online and then share them with others through profiles, groups, sets, and other methods.

Foursquare: Foursquare is a social network in which friends share their locations and connect with others in close physical proximity to each other. The service uses a system of digital badges to reward players who “check in” to different types of locations.

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Google+: Google+ is a social network operated by Google that allows users to group people they know into cirles.

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Hashtag: A hashtag is a tag used on the social network Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as a way to annotate a message. A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by a “#.”

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Instagram: Instagram is a photo sharing application that lets users take photos, apply filters to their images, and share the photos instantly on the Instagram network and other social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare.

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LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.

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Twitter: Twitter is a social network site that allows users to share their thoughts in 140 characters or less.