ENGLISH TRAINING FOR I.T. | Topic: Social media/social networking (common terms) 2
Practice social media vocabulary with this exercise. The terms here span platforms, engagement metrics, and the digital marketing language used by social media professionals across the industry.
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. The platform has a ____________________ translation program developed by its users.
Correct answer: user-driven.
2. _________________ features = great/amazing features
Correct answer: killer.
3. This application is still in _________________. (meaning: still being worked on/tested)
Correct answer: beta.
4. It just doesn't _________________ to the competition. = It's just not as good as the competition.
Correct answer: stack up.
5. They recently implemented multi-account _________________. (meaning: the ability to use/control more than one account)
Correct answer: support.
6. The site offers a lot of advanced ___________________ (meaning: functionality) to its members.
Correct answer: options.
7. Social networking sites often look for ways to create a _________________ (meaning: better, fuller) experience for their visitors.
Correct answer: richer.
8. Social media platforms can easily ____________________ with other websites and services.
Correct answer: integrate.
9. I don't want everyone to be able to _________________ (meaning: find) this information.
Correct answer: access.
10. I haven't _________________ (meaning: changed) my status in weeks.
Correct answer: updated.
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📚 Important Words to Know 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