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About This Quiz
Social media is taking the world by storm with its emergence as a very powerful factor, affecting the way we communicate and touching every aspect of our personal and business lives. For the baby boomers and Generation Y, it may be difficult to remember but the usage and existence of social networking tools date back to 1978, as a means of sharing information and of course, communication.
Four decades later, these networked communication channels have evolved into interactive online platforms with the ‘likes’ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, and many others, enabling users to create content on personal and business pages through posting, sharing of photos, events, and videos. Online activities such as instant messages, chatting, gaming, webcasting, and blogging have seen immense growth over the years. In the business society, it is a valuable tool for marketers who reach the billions of registered users of these social media sites.
Social media determines what is considered socially acceptable and thus continues to grow tremendously, whilst influencing mass cultural exchanges and intercultural communication. With the development of new catchphrases from LOL to YOLO to hashtags, social media has altered the linguistics and communication etiquette of the youth in a way the world cannot comprehend. But can you comprehend all the lingo and do you know how to 'like' something? Take this quiz to SHYD!
It’s the audiovisual platform where people can create and subscribe to channels.
Care2
Cafemom
YouTube
YouTube is now utilized by both amateurs and professionals interested, to broadcast audiovisual content to the world. It's effective!
Reverbnation
It’s the one where we “like†posts and “unfriend†people in our contact list.
Facebook
Facebook already has more than1 billion accounts on it. Whether these are duplicates or organic numbers are rather hard to guesstimate...
Renren
Taringa
Telegram
It’s currently the most popular microblogging platform where we send out “tweets†to our followers.
Chart
The Dot
Twitter
Twitter users are about 300 million plus already. It's a manageable way of sending info bits.
Tagged
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It’s the younger people’s preference for capturing the moment and discarding them later.
Netflix
Flixster
Snapchat
Snapchat is more of a visual platform where people tell stories through photo essays. The younger population are mostly here.
Napster
The worldwide chat and call service app, where you can make conference calls in voice mode or video chat mode.
Skype
Skype is now utilized as a popular face-to-face chat platform. Even news organizations use this for remote interviews.
Limewire
Orpheus
Napster
The earliest platform that allowed people to publish written content WYSIWYG style online, anytime, without the aid of a gatekeeper.
Frames
Blogs
There are many blog platforms available out there. Some even have an app version for easier posting.
Lenses
Shifts
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It’s the platform where professionals and businesses connect with each other.
Kiwibox
LinkedIn
There are about 100 million active users in a given month on LinkedIn. Recruiters now have an easier time headhunting talent through this platform.
WeTransfer
StumbleUpon
Thanks to Instagram and immediate social media posting, this term of taking a photo of one’s self became a household term already.
Influencer
Selfie
The Oxford dictionary recently certified the word "selfie" as legit. Language evolves, sure.
Paranoid
Entitled
The shortened term we use for executable programs installed in our mobile devices.
exe
txt
wav
App
Apps are actually applications. Yep, this is what we call these programs.
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Yahoo used to have a popular chat platform. What was it called?
ChatY!
Y! Go!
Yahoo Messenger
YM or Yahoo Messenger was an important early platform of chat messaging. Too bad it had to die down.
YY Talk
Before FB burst into the scene, this is one popular social networking platform where people can upload multiple types of content in one specific area that they could call their own.
MyHeritage
Classmates.Com
Cellufun
MySpace
MySpace was primarily used by younger people who wanted to upload music. A lot of budding artists started like that here.
Before everyone was on Facebook back in 2008-2009, everyone was on this similar social networking platform, to find lots of pals and peers.
Marioso
Friendster
Friendster served its purpose in the early to late 2000s, the way Facebook is serving it now. It was fun while it lasted...
ICQ
P2P
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It’s the platform where you can find cool ideas for any kind of project and bookmark them as photos.
Cosima
Xing
Taheebo
Pinterest
Pinterest is popular for craftspersons who like doing DIY kind of projects. It's an interesting take on how people can get a hold of your work without owning them.
When something gets shared so many times and becomes popular in the process, what is the term used for this kind of popularity?
Gone viral
No matter how icky it sounds, "to go viral" means it's a good thing. That means your content is spreading... but not sickeningly, though.
Went awry
Shoot zipzap
Made headlines
It’s the popular photo-sharing platform for people serious in photography, since they can upload and share bigger sized files here.
Wayn
Nextdoor
Flickr
Flickr is basically a photo-sharing website. People also have the option to download photos in larger formats.
Audacity
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It’s the blog platform that started behaving like a social networking platform when it allowed people to reblog posts of people they follow.
Meatr
Tumblr
Tumblr surprisingly has more than 500 million active users in a given month; That's a lot of blog posts/reposts.
Heatr
Siftr
It’s the stand-alone chat app of Facebook.
FB-ing
Ravelry
Blendr
FB messenger
FB Messenger is a stand-alone app for instant messaging. But hello FB, it was fine within the platform before it became like this.
It’s the one where we post pictures cropped into square frames.
Instagram
Instagram used to be exclusive for Apple's iPhone users, but good thing they also developed it for the Android market.
Snapfish
Delicious
Skyrock
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Today’s current popular dating app where you swipe left or swipe right.
Baidu
OK Cupid
Tinder
Tinder is popular for singles of all persuasions. It's useful for both heterosexuals and LGBTs.
Downelink
He’s the Harvard guy who invented Facebook, controversially.
Henry O'Keefe
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg was the subject of a biography that became the basis for the movie The Social Network. It's an interesting take on how FB came about.
Eli Wallach
Justin Timberlake
It’s the date app popular with gay guys all around the world.
Grindr
Grindr is more of a location-sourcing app wherein you can see people who are around you. And yes, the objective is to hook up.
Beepr
Wipr
Flavr
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It’s one of the most popular instant messaging platforms today, the one with the phone logo inside a circle.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a popular tool in North America. In different parts of the world, though, they use parallel apps that serve the same purpose.
Hi-5
Live Journal
Plurk
It’s what people say in social networking sites when they want to be contacted one on one.
SHUSH me
FLM you
PM/DM me
PM me or "private message me" and DM, "direct message" are the newer ways of saying talk to me one on one. On Twitter, people also say "DM me."
LOl-ed
Most social networking apps are downloadable in Apple products via this tool. What’s it called?
App Store
The App Store is a built-in store in which you need to set up an account to access it. The gadget won't actually be able to access apps without it.
Junior Ware
Buyer Board
Mal Ware
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It’s the platform where users get to vote on the quality/popularity of the content other users post there, and the votes are used as the gauge of each content’s upward or downward movement on the topic lists.
Xanga
Viadeo
Reddit
About 200 million active users subreddit on a monthly basis. Reddit is really more like a chat gone longer.
Showerboom
In Android-run mobile platforms, you can download social networking apps using this tool.
Play Store
The Google Play Store had many incarnations before its current state. However, it's geared more now for recording gaming stats as well.
GarageBand
Windows Lexus
PC Works
It’s the platform that allows music lovers to create their own playlists or share their playlists with others, while following certain albums, musicians or themes/topics/genres.
Tout
Mixi
Douban
Spotify
Spotify was a good invention for music lovers. But musicians like Taylor Swift have some issues with it.
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Twitter started with how many characters allowed per tweet?
28 characters
100 words
140 characters
Twitter's 140 character limit trained people to be more curt and also straight to the point. That's why some don't like its current expansion.
60 seconds
Unlike traditional media where content is comes from in-house/within industry providers, social media’s content is said to be of this important characteristic.
Freebie content
Randomized content
User-generated content
Social media content relies heavily on what's known as user-generated content. While the tools might be built in the system, it's how users do with them that counts.
Repurposed content
It’s an app you use if you want to search for a food eatery recommendation, which used to allow you to “check in†to mark your presence in that place.
Gaia Online
Foursquare
Foursquare's previous check-in social networking system got a stand-alone app called Swarm. Foursquare is now more useful as a crowdsourced directory of sorts.
Funny or Die
Wordpress
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This site is heavily used by visual artists who upload their portfolio of works to advertise themselves or to just display their artworks.
Buzznet
Multiply.Com
DeviantArt
DeviantArt is a good site for both art enthusiasts and artist alike. But issues of plagiarism hound the site due to unethical users who steal people's content.
We Heart It
It’s the one where users can post 6-second videos.
Soundcloud
Badoo
Vine
Vine is like Instagram. However, it's mostly made up of quickie videos.
MeetMe
This mobile app is another popular instant messaging service where people can chat and send pictures, audio files, and photos, plus make calls outside of the platform, too.
Meetup
Weibo
Viber
When one is not using WhatsApp, one is using Viber. Some regions prefer this one.
Tesla
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The term “social media†was actually an offshoot of the latest categorization of media platforms that involved information and communication technologies. What’s this category?
Cybernetics
Gene splicing
Free speech
New media
Social media is actually an offshoot under the newer term "new media," which describes the media in the digital age. Since it's so popular, people now use it as a viable stand-alone category, too.
When you post an inquiry to hopefully get the opinions and recommendations of your social media contacts, what is that process called?
Laziness
Polling
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing means people asking their contacts for personal or professional recommendations. But if people just crowdsource to ask and ask questions, sometimes it's tempting to comment "Google it first!"
Solicitation
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