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  • everybody.

  • Welcome back to our weekly live stream.

  • My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about social media vocabulary.

  • I'm going to talk about a lot of words you can use on Twitter on Facebook, on instagram, on Snapchat on whatever you use.

  • And you can use a lot of these words in text messages with your friends and with your family.

  • So throughout today's lesson, please make sure to send lots of examples in the chat, and I will try to check them in real time.

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  • Uh, yes.

  • And if you missed it, Today's topic is social media vocabulary, social media vocabulary.

  • So today is going to be vocabulary heavy.

  • I'm going to talk about some expressions.

  • You see Onley on social media or on Lee in like very casual messages.

  • All right, I see many people on the YouTube chat.

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  • Okay.

  • And our Facebook chat.

  • I see lots of people there too.

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  • Hello, everybody.

  • Thank you very much for joining us live.

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  • I'm going to share the video and then I'll start today's lesson.

  • All right, so let's begin.

  • I want to begin today's lesson by talking about verbs.

  • I'm going to focus on verbs that you can use for social media to begin with here.

  • So let's get started.

  • The first verb I want to talk about is to post to post.

  • To post means to share something on social media, to post something means to share, to share something on social media.

  • So this verb to post this is pronounced with a long Oh, sound.

  • This verb comes from demonstrate this action.

  • So a long time ago, maybe it was normal to share information by doing this like on a public board of some kind.

  • We shared information like this.

  • So this action doing this was called posting to post something.

  • Now, of course, online.

  • We do this with our pictures and with our information digitally.

  • So this is like what we do now on Facebook or on Twitter or on Instagram, but we use the same verb to post something to post something.

  • So when we share information online, we describe it with Post.

  • I posted a picture on Instagram or I posted an update on Facebook, so the past tense is posted posted.

  • So all right past tense here past tense posted.

  • This is also the past participle for Have you ever posted something on Facebook?

  • OK, so that's our first keyword for today.

  • The second on third.

  • Really.

  • These are pairs that I want to mention they are to friend to friend or to follow to friend or to follow.

  • These have really the same meaning, but it means to create a connection online.

  • So we use friend on Facebook to friend.

  • Someone on Facebook means to add a person as a friend on your Facebook account to friends, someone so like I friended my co worker caste Tense form is friended friended.

  • It takes the regular e d ending for the past tense.

  • So I friended someone on Facebook to follow.

  • We used this sound like instagram and on Twitter it means you start following someone's updates.

  • So to follow the past tense form is followed followed e d.

  • Ending again.

  • So he followed me on Instagram or she followed me on Twitter.

  • So to friend is for Facebook or for any other social media platform that uses friend to follow is for others.

  • Generally, we can use either one.

  • You may also here to add someone to add someone on Facebook.

  • I'll add that here too, to add someone.

  • But we usually say to add someone on Facebook okay.

  • And send your messages.

  • Send your examples in the chat.

  • I will try to check someone.

  • I said someone said I friended you on Facebook, which is perfect.

  • I friended past tense.

  • I friended you on Facebook.

  • Okay, so the other side of this, then, like the opposite version Is this to unfriend to unfriend or two unfollowed to unfriend or two unfollowed?

  • Maybe some of you know this prefix unknown to unfriend or two unfollowed.

  • So unm means not a kn means that it's a negative to unfriend means to remove someone from your friends list.

  • So I unfriended my old co worker or I unfriended that person.

  • So, to unfriend, someone is to remove them from your social media contacts list to Owen follow is the same thing.

  • So you stop receiving updates from someone.

  • So I unfollowed him on instagram or it unfollowed him on Twitter To unfollowed, someone means to cancel your following.

  • So again, past tense unfriend in past tense becomes unfriended and unfollowed becomes unfollowed.

  • So these are all regular verbs in the past tense.

  • Unfollowed.

  • Okay, uh, some people said I follow you on YouTube.

  • A good point.

  • Uh, the proposition we use for social media platforms is on.

  • So I follow you on instagram.

  • I follow you on Twitter.

  • So to follow someone to follow someone on, please use on.

  • Not in on Twitter on Facebook on YouTube on, uh, yet on YouTube on Facebook on Twitter.

  • Please use the proposition on to describe that before the social media platform.

  • I want to follow you.

  • Good.

  • Okay.

  • Some other examples.

  • Someone said I will unfriend you.

  • Alicia.

  • Okay, sorry.

  • Okay.

  • Other examples, uh, follow you every day.

  • Okay, Keep in mind this, uh, these verbs are for when you begin to follow someone.

  • So when we want to talk about someone's updates, you can say I check your updates every day.

  • I check your updates every day.

  • instead of follow.

  • So follow is like the first time you hit the button.

  • Okay?

  • I followed my friend or I followed this person we use follow that time.

  • After that, you can say I check your updates every day.

  • Okay, good.

  • So some people are saying I follow you on YouTube.

  • Great.

  • Great.

  • And then I check your updates every day.

  • So follow marks the start point after follow.

  • Let's see.

  • So I checked.

  • Change your verb to check.

  • I check your updates.

  • I check your updates, or I check your feet.

  • I check your feet.

  • Your feet means wth e all of the things you post that list of stuff that you post.

  • That's your feet.

  • I check your feet every day.

  • Great night funds.

  • I check your updates every day.

  • Very nice.

  • Very nice.

  • Okay, good.

  • Good.

  • Good.

  • Looks nice.

  • Let's go to the next group.

  • This next group is like features that you can use on different platforms.

  • So the first feature here is to mute to mute.

  • I think maybe many people know to mute, so to mute means to turn off like someone's updates.

  • You turn off the updates, but you do not unfollowed them so mute is like if you just turn off the sound.

  • If you just turn out the words, you continue to follow someone, but you don't see their updates.

  • So, for example, if you have someone who posts like 10 or 20 times a day on Facebook or instagram or Twitter and they're your friend, but that's a lot of information you can mute that person to mute someone is just to remove their updates from your feet to mute someone.

  • Past tense is muted, muted, muted.

  • So, for example, I muted a few people recently.

  • Or did you mute me?

  • So to mute someone means to stop receiving their updates, but to continue following them?

  • Haley Alia says, I mute people who post spam.

  • Yes, exactly two mute people or to mute the phone number.

  • Can you do that?

  • I wonder.

  • Some people say I muted some notifications.

  • Nice on Edgard.

  • Good, good, good.

  • Yeah, You, Brahim on Facebook said, Make them silent.

  • That's exactly it.

  • So you continue to follow.

  • But that person is like silent on your feet.

  • So to mute can be very useful.

  • Sometimes they're your friend, but maybe you don't want to see so many updates.

  • Someone on YouTube says I muted my Facebook friend, who always posts herself eyes.

  • Oh, really?

  • Yeah.

  • Sometimes there's a lot a lot of selfies for sure.

  • Good.

  • Okay, let's go to the next one, which is to block to block is different from two mute.

  • To block someone is to remove them from your contact list.

  • Yes, and to prevent that person to prevent that account from checking from seeing your posts.

  • So if there's a strange person on your like on your counter, if there's a strange person following you, you get strange messages.

  • Or maybe you need thio end a relationship or something.

  • Something happens.

  • You can block that person.

  • They cannot see your updates and you don't see any messages.

  • You don't see any from that person.

  • So past tense is blocked.

  • Blocked?

  • I blocked her or I blocked him.

  • A strange person sent me messages and I blocked him right away.

  • That's true.

  • So Okay, so to block is different from two mute.

  • Okay, uh, Gertrudis says Mute is similar to ignore.

  • Yes, it's similar, but when you ignore someone, you can still you can see all of their information, but you choose not thio like react or like like it or anything.

  • When you mute someone, you don't see the information at all, so you can't see it.

  • So, like, uh, what's a good example?

  • So yeah, if maybe you decided to mute me like you follow me on Instagram.

  • But I post like the same selfie 10 times a day.

  • And you're like, I don't want this information, but I want to continue following Alicia.

  • Maybe I want to check in the future.

  • You can mute me.

  • Please don't make me.

  • Hopefully you don't need me.

  • But you can mute that and then you don't have to see all of that span.

  • Okay, let's go then.

  • To the next verb which is to edit to edit to edit is a useful function.

  • We have edit functions on Facebook and on Instagram.

  • We cannot edit on Twitter, so to edit means to change the text of your post.

  • So I used post as a verb here we can use post as a noun.

  • Also, the thing that you share so to edit, means to change the content of your post.

  • So if you read your post Oh, no.

  • I made a mistake.

  • You can go fix that.

  • So to fix your post to make a change to your post is too at it to edit that past tense form is edited edited.

  • So I do this a lot.

  • Like after I post something I check, I realized Oh, no, I have a typo.

  • So I edit my posts.

  • I edited my post last night so that it is a very useful feature.

  • Okay, uh, then someone I think Leo mentioned this already to spam to spam is the next verb.

  • Um, this is also unknown.

  • So spam means junk spam means just unnecessary, useless stuff.

  • Maybe some people posed a lot of jokes and that seems like spam.

  • I don't know, but spam is junk.

  • Spam is stuff we don't need.

  • We can use this as a verb as well.

  • To spam means to share a lot of stuff, usually really quickly.

  • So sometimes you'll There was one person on your feet that's sharing a lot of stuff at the same time.

  • Like really, really like fast.

  • So that's called spamming spamming.

  • So we see this a lot in, uh, in the progressive form.

  • Eric says he likes eating span.

  • OK, drill this.

  • Okay, So to spam in pastas spammed.

  • And we double the m here spent Sorry spammed spammed.

  • He spammed my timeline or she spammed my timeline.

  • He says he actually doesn't like eating spam.

  • Just pitching an example sentence out there.

  • Okay, so spam to spam is to is to share a lot of information to span stops, spamming, junk guests.

  • Exactly Nice example.

  • Okay, uh, let's go to the last one for this group.

  • The last one here.

  • Kind of hard to see.

  • Sorry.

  • There's that graphic, but to tag or two untaxed to tag or two untaxed someone.

  • This is when you share a picture of some kind.

  • So when you share the picture when you share a picture on yeah, on Twitter, on Facebook, on instagram, you choose someone.

  • This is a bad example.

  • You can choose someone or something in the picture.

  • Click it and, like, choose a person's name that's called tagging to tag someone in a picture to attack someone.

  • And the opposite, to remove someone's name from a picture or from a post is again to untaxed to untaxed.

  • So we see this un this prefix a nun, which means to not do something or to remove moved something.

  • So to tag someone the opposite is to untaxed someone past tense form.

  • It's I don't think there's race to to, uh, tagged and untaxed again.

  • We double that G constant tag and tad in past tense.

  • So these are some key verbs that are extremely useful on social media, especially, and a couple of these are useful in text messages as well.

  • We'll look more in a minute at some text message ones.

  • Okay.

  • Ah, let's see.

  • I don't see any questions.

  • There's some good examples, Then CMG on YouTube says I sometimes antagonist myself in some pictures.

  • My friend tagged me in.

  • Good, nice one.

  • Uh, Abdul sassier on Facebook says, What is the meaning of Polk?

  • Polk is an old Facebook Facebook function that really doesn't have a meaning.

  • Poke s o The question this person's question is about.

  • I'll put it here.

  • This word poke, this is on Facebook.

  • This is a really kind of strange function on Facebook.

  • It's a verb to poke to poke is this motion.

  • So when you want to get your friend's attention, you're near your friend.

  • This motion is poking to poke someone.

  • So this is an old thing on Facebook.

  • Like a strange way to say hello is to poke someone on Facebook.

  • That's all.

  • That's what it means to poke someone.

  • Okay, Anyway, let's take a break there.

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  • This is a new pdf.

  • This is about online vocabulary words.

  • If you have not checked the PDS lately, check it out.

  • There are a lot of new ones.

  • I'll show you over here.

  • This is the talking online.

  • Pdf.

  • So there's a lot of vocabulary for your devices.

  • Yes, sure.

  • So vocabulary for the, like computers, devices, the technology.

  • But on the back, this is very similar to today's lesson.

  • I'm going to talk about some of these these points here.

  • Uh, he's like Internet words I'll talk about and these air some conversational expressions relating to today's topic.

  • These are other vocabulary words.

  • Some of them are in today's lesson, like to follow, and we'll see a few more.

  • And then these are some common social media platforms.

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  • But you let's go to the next part of today's lesson.

  • Then, if you're just joining us, today's topic is social media vocabulary.

  • So, as I said, social media verbs.

  • But now we're going to talk about some expressions and some lingo you can use in text messages as well.

  • So if you have not to please make sure to like and share, the video's other learners can find it.

  • Okay, let's go to the next group.

  • The next group these air just letters together that have meaning in, uh, social media situations and in text message situations.

  • 1st 1 is this T b e T T B T.

  • If you are an instagram user or maybe a Facebook user, you probably know what TV T means.

  • And oftentimes you'll see it like this.

  • I'll explain this later.

  • T b t stands for throw back mirrors a day back there.

  • This is a very common online trend.

  • Throw back Thursday T b T.

  • This is a weekly trend, a weekly, a sort of activity where people share something from the past.

  • So a throwback throwback is a word that it's like a casual word for a memory, like we're going back to some like, exciting thing in the past.

  • Oh, there's some problem on.

  • Okay, So a throwback Thursday Post is like, Maybe I'm going to share a post from my childhood or I'll share a post from my school days or I'll share a post from last summer.

  • So throwback Thursday is a chance for people to share like memories so you might see t b t a lot on Thursdays during the week.

  • TBT.

  • That's what this means.

  • Okay, uh, the next one.

  • Q.

  • T.

  • This is when you might see on Twitter Q T so Q t again.

  • You.

  • Maybe you see this with a mark in front of it, but Q t means quote, tweet, quote, tweet.

  • So a quote tweet.

  • If you're a Twitter user, you maybe know this one already.

  • A quote to eat is when you write a tweet.

  • So let's imagine.

  • This is my tweet and I have some comment here, but I want to mention something someone else said.

  • So I have another tweet inside my tweets.

  • So this is from Can I use Eric in my exact banker?

  • So this is Eric's to eat, and I want to make a comment about Eriks Tweet.

  • I used a quote tweet, So quote refers to this tweet.

  • I'm including it inside my tweet, but we use we sometimes use Q t to talk about this like Q T.

  • You might see it used as a verb as well.

  • To Q T To quote, tweet someone to quote, tweet someone Q T.

  • So a quote tweet again.

  • This is for Twitter.

  • This is a Twitter specific.

  • Okay, let's go to this one this next one is used a lot.

  • I see this one used a lot on Twitter on Instagram as well to end.

  • Of course, you can use this in text messages.

  • S m h means shaking, shaking my head, shaking my head so she to shake your head Is this motion to shake your head?

  • It doesn't mean like I don't know.

  • Like listening to music to shake your head has a negative meaning.

  • So we use SMH up when we are expressing disappointment.

  • So you read like a sad news article or a disappointing news article and you might respond with SMH like shaking my head about this news article S m h m h s.

  • So you you can use this in text messages as well to express disappointment.

  • Someone asked, uh, is this leg retweet know a retweet is sharing the same tweet again?

  • A quote tweet is sharing one tweet inside another tweet.

  • I'm trying.

  • I don't think I have any.

  • Maybe there's some examples on my timeline.

  • If you want to check some examples, we might have someone The English class one on one time line.

  • Maybe.

  • I think there are some examples on my timeline.

  • If you want to check eso quote.

  • Tweet is different from a retweet.

  • Okay, let's go to this one ratio ratio.

  • This is another one.

  • That's very, uh, B has become very popular.

  • Popular, I guess, more common on Twitter.

  • This is used on Twitter, and this is a new expression.

  • Eso ratio ratio is a special word that's used again on Twitter when usually someone writes, a tweet, writes a message that's very controversial.

  • So controversial means there are many different opinions, and lots of people disagree about it.

  • So a ratio refers to on Twitter.

  • We can like a tweet.

  • We can share a tweet, and we can comment on a tweet.

  • So a ratio means the number of comments.

  • The number of comments is very, very high.

  • But the number of shares and likes is very low.

  • So, for example, if someone writes like a pizza is terrible or like, your favorite food is terrible or something, there might be a lot of comments like people disagreeing.

  • We describe this situation this situation of lots and lots of comments, feud, few shares, few retweets.

  • This is a ratio.

  • We can use this as a verb.

  • Usually we say to get ratio.

  • Ode to get ratio means to do you have a very, very like a big response and negative response to a controversial tweet to get ratio.

  • This happens to politicians.

  • It's a lot to get ratio.

  • That's what it means.

  • This is more common on Twitter.

  • Actually, this is used on Twitter, and it's becoming more common lately.

  • Eso when a tweet has lots of comments, few shares and few retweets is a is a ratio.

  • So we describe that as ratio to get ratio.

  • Okay, let's go to the last to hear because time's going grew up quickly.

  • They are b R B b R B means be right back.

  • Be right back.

  • I've heard to be right back.

  • This is three words BRD So you're participating in a conversation, maybe in the YouTube chat, for example, or the Facebook chat, and you need to leave for a moment and then come back.

  • So you leave you type like the R B.

  • You leave and then you come back.

  • We say B R V to express that Abu on Facebook says, What about shaking your head to indicate positivity something?

  • So when the verb we used to show we agree is to nod to nod.

  • But we don't use something like that on social media.

  • For just for your reference to nod an OD to nod.

  • Is this motion like to agree with someone?

  • This motion shows disappointment to shake your head to shake your head to nod your head.

  • Okay.

  • Last one l O l l a.

  • Well, uh, there are a couple different ones for this one.

  • Laughing or laugh out loud.

  • So to laugh out loud, laughing out loud means using your voice.

  • Actually, you read something so funny you actually laugh, so l o l very common on English social media and in English text messages.

  • L o l all right.

  • Phew.

  • I don't see other.

  • Okay, so let's continue on to the last group, because time's going quickly.

  • Um, this Hello?

  • Uh, this is too at.

  • I know this is a symbol, like in your email address, like something something.

  • Something at gmail dot com.

  • But we use this on social media to mean contact.

  • To act someone means to write to someone to write to someone to act.

  • So, yes, this is a symbol.

  • We read it at so in sentences you might hear.

  • Don't asked me.

  • This is something we see.

  • No, on social media, Don't at me.

  • Which means don't write to me.

  • So don't reply to my controversial tweet, for example so to act someone is to write to them on social media at someone.

  • Okay, this next one, uh, this symbol I mentioned.

  • This is red as hashtag hashtag hash.

  • This is used all locked on Instagram.

  • This is a it's used on Twitter and Facebook also.

  • But hashtag is how we read this.

  • So when we read when we see things online like for example, this like hashtag English, for example we read it as hashtag word.

  • We read it as two words hashtag English or hashtag TBT eso You might hear people, especially young people say hashtag in conversation now.

  • So it's like they're giving, like, a focus word or like a theme for the conversation.

  • I've heard this, especially among young people in the last few years.

  • Hashtag something.

  • Okay, Um next one, I don't see any other things.

  • Emoji, emoji.

  • This is how we pronounce this word.

  • Emoji, Emoji.

  • Emoji Are those little faces in in your phone?

  • I can't draw little faces in your phone.

  • Uh, the little symbols you can use.

  • We call those emoji.

  • That's the word for this emoji emoji.

  • And finally, to wrap up quickly to like to, like, I use this in every episode of every video and every livestream I say please, like, and share the video.

  • So to like, something, uh, you can do with anything on social media.

  • I think you can like something.

  • Maybe known instagram story.

  • Also, the opposite of to life is too unlike so too unlike something means to take away your like, but, uh, that's less used, I think so, too.

  • Like something.

  • And then we'll end today with this one, uh, last minute contribution.

  • I am h o.

  • So h is in parentheses here because you don't always need this.

  • You might see I m o I am.

  • Oh, this is especially used in discussion.

  • So I am Oh, means, in my opinion, with no h or in my you can add, in my honest opinion, in my honest opinion.

  • So this is my true feeling, my real feeling, in my opinion, or in my honest opinion, this is a great restaurant.

  • So I am Oh means In my opinion, you may see that Ah, lot in text messages and in social media.

  • So this is a quick list, a very quick list of social media vocabulary words.

  • But if you want more definitely download this talking online.

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  • It has a lot of other vocabulary words.

  • There are a lot more than I did not talk about here.

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  • Questions.

  • I don't see questions.

  • I thought some good examples coming in, though.

  • Uh, let's see, there's some good examples of hash tags.

  • I missed a group of those.

  • It was nice, though, and someone says, in my dishonest opinion, we don't say that way.

  • Don't say that in my design.

  • In my opinion, Alicia loves this.

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  • Will end their, uh, next week's lesson is about what I forget.

  • Uh, next week.

  • What is the date for next week, anyway?

  • September What What's today?

  • September 12th?

  • Yeah, September 11th.

  • So Wednesday, September 11th.

  • We will be back again, and I'm going to do another a quick response lesson.

  • So I did this a few weeks ago, I think, last month, and it was People seem to enjoy it, so I'm going to do another quick response.

  • Practice lesson.

  • This one is going to be about food, though.

  • I'm going to talk about quick responses to food related questions.

  • So, like when you go to, like, make a decision about a restaurant or you're trying to decide what to eat or where to go.

  • We're going to practice some expressions for that next week.

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