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VOCABULARY TOPIC – Social media, Advertising
MR. ALEX’S TOPIC VOCABULARY – (Part 3) 13, 46, 50
Emoji – Picture in your phone that you use with text
Face to face – Talking to someone IRL (in real life) Rather than texting
Handling conflict – Dealing with a disagreement with someone
Maintain a friendship – Continue being friends with someone
Not meant to last – Something is destined to end eventually
Gossiping – Talking about someone behind their back
Relate to younger people – Understand/ feel emotions like younger ppl
News distribution model – The way that news gets to people (Social media, paper)
Personal data – Facts about you, such as age, where you live, etc
Publicly available – Something that everyone has access to
Brand awareness/ recognition – How much a company is in the public eye/ popular
Persuasive ad – An advertisement that makes you do something
Experienced marketer – Someone who is good at making ads
Deficit/ missing something – Something that you are lacking
Niche – A part of a market that has a deficit

MR. ALEX’S HIGH LEVEL VOCABULARY
Value – How much something is worth
Assigned – To give a task/ worth to someone/ something
Delicate balance – Something that should be balanced carefully
Age-old question – A problem has existed for many generations
Benefits and drawbacks – Pros and cons
Devastating results – Very and results
EXTRA VOCAB
SOCIAL MEDIA
To go viral - to spread quickly (videos or posts)
To scroll - to move up and down on a screen
To swipe - to move left and right on a screen
A vlogger - person sharing their personal life on video
A blogger - person sharing their personal life by writing a blog
A meme - a funny way to spread ideas and behavior
Cyberbullying - to attack and intimidate on the Interne
A troll - someone who flames and upsets other people on the internet
An influencer - someone with a large following on the Internet who can have influence over others
Phishing - Pretending to be someone else so you can steal someone’s ID, personal info….
Streaming - the continuous transmission of audio or video files
Data privacy - keeping your data (personal information private)
Keep in touch with family – to keep talking with family members
Keep in contact with…. – to keep in touch with
Viral - if a post/ video is viral or “has gone viral,” that means it is spreading very rapidly across the internet
Troll - used as a verb and a noun. A troll is a person who purposely creates offensive or provocative posts or comments to arouse anger in other social media users.
Hater - a person who posts negative or critical comments about others
Vlogger - a person who regularly creates short videos to be posted online
Meme - a humorous image or text that is easily sent to others over the internet
Anonymity - The state of being anonymous, of people not knowing your identity
DM - direct message
Emoji - a small digital image used in social media/ emails/ text to display an emotion, object or idea
Badger - to bother someone repeatedly
Derogatory - offensive, hurtful, disrespectful
Censor -to keep certain images, Texts, etc. From being displayed or published because it is offensive or immoral
Follow - to subscribe to the page of a person or business on social media
Harass - to create a hostile situation through written or verbal communication
Catfishing - the act of creating a false internet profile in order to deceive or scam someone
Influencer - a person who promotes a product online to his/her followers so that they may purchase it
Photoshop - software that allows users to digitally alter their images
Filters - preset photo enhancements that users can select to apply to their images or videos
Scam - a dishonest attempt to trick or cheat you
Clickbait - Internet content where the main intention is to draw
Crowdfunding – Funding projects by using lots of small donations from internet users
Cyberbullying – Using the internet to send threatening or intimidating messages
Data Privacy – How private your user data is kept
Premium Content – Internet Content that must be subscribed to and paid for
Sensationalism – Exaggerated news that is designed to get people’s attention by shocking them
Streaming – The live continuous Transmission of video / audio content
To browse – To view different web pages on the internet