ENGLISH TRAINING FOR I.T. | Topic: Social media/social networking (common terms) 1
A vocabulary exercise covering the language of social media and digital communication. These terms reflect the vocabulary of platforms, content strategy, and the online communities that shape modern business.
📚 Key vocabulary API (Application Programming Interface) — a set of rules allowing different software applications to communicate and share data with each other cloud computing — the delivery of computing services including storage, servers, and software over the internet on demand agile methodology — a project management approach based on iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility to change DevOps — a set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten development cycles and improve reliability cybersecurity — the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks and unauthorized access bandwidth — the maximum rate of data transfer across a network, typically measured in megabits per second latency — the delay between a user's action and the corresponding response from a system or network scalability — the ability of a system or network to handle an increasing amount of work or expand its capacity firewall — a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on defined rules encryption — the process of encoding data so that only authorized parties can read it
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Professional communities and discussion platforms help people ____________________ together online.
Correct answer: band.
2. Many platforms provide ____________________ search functionality, allowing users to find information as soon as it is posted.
Correct answer: real-time.
3. The moderation team recently ____________________ a large number of spam accounts.
Correct answer: purged.
4. The project-mapping tool allows you to save ____________________ maps.
Correct answer: multiple.
5. A friend ____________________ is something you send to someone when you want to connect with them online.
Correct answer: request.
6. The account has been ___________________. = The account is currently not active.
Correct answer: deactivated.
7. On most social networking sites, you can _________________ videos to your page. (meaning: upload and show videos on your page)
Correct answer: post.
8. The service recently launched a mobile ____________________ for its users.
Correct answer: platform.
9. Many users find excessive notifications ____________________.
Correct answer: annoying.
10. A _________________ is basically a line of text, like a sentence, etc.