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. Many social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, etc. help people _________________ together ( = get connected, become part of the same group) online.
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2. Twitter (X) has implemented _________________ search functionality, so that someone can find information as soon as it is posted on the network.
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3. Instagram recently _________________ ( = got rid of) a lot of spam accounts.
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4. Our site now allows you to save _________________ ( = more than one) maps.
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5. A "friend _________________" is something you send to someone asking them to join your network of friends.
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6. The account has been ___________________. = The account is currently not active.
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7. On most social networking sites, you can _________________ videos to your page. ( = upload and show videos on your page)
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8. Most people check their social media on their _________________.
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9. A lot of people find Facebook's sharing of users' personal data _________________. ( = concerning)
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10. A _________________ is basically a line of text, like a sentence, etc.
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