Social Media Glossary Definitions: "F"
Social networking site Facebook was started by Harvard college student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. Originally for US students only, now anyone can join. You go to University, you move town, you grow up – and still the geeky annoying kid from 4B tracks you down.
When a marketing bod pretends to be a 12-year-old computer nerd and leaves made-up reviews of his own products all over the blogosphere - it’s known as a fake blog or flog. Like fake hair, fake nails and fake tans - fake blogs are cheap and nasty. It’s not a good look.
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To savage a post, line by line, in a highly critical but often witty and sarcastic way is known as Fisking or to Fisk. The term is named after journalist Robert Fisk, an early recipient of Fisking. We should be thankful he wasn’t called Robertson-Smythe.
To savage a post, line by line, in a highly critical but often witty and sarcastic way is known as Fisking or to Fisk. The term is named after journalist Robert Fisk, an early recipient of Fisking. We should be thankful he wasn’t called Robertson-Smythe.
Posting inflammatory and insulting comments on a blog is known as flaming. A flame, which is often a personal attack on the blogger, adds nothing to the discussion and often upsets and offends. Do this kind of thing in the real world and see what happens.
Posting inflammatory and insulting comments on a blog is known as flaming. A flame, which is often a personal attack on the blogger, adds nothing to the discussion and often upsets and offends. Do this kind of thing in the real world and see what happens.
Aaah-aaah saviour of the universe. Umm…not really. But Adobe Flash is a cool piece of vector animation and programming software which enables animation, audio and video to appear on your website.
The unnecessary and excessive use of Adobe Flash on websites is known as flashturbation. Loved by amateur web designers and 14 year olds everywhere, too much flashturbation can make you go blind.
Flickr is a photo-sharing website where you can upload your photos and tag them so the content can be easily found. Or put words to the photos to create a work of flicktion. Not to be confused with Flipper who was an Aussie dolphin.
A collection of pictures on Flickr accompanied by short stories is known as flicktion. The Doorbells of Florence, which has gained a cult following, was a work of flicktion which was nominated for a Blooker Prize. Just goes to show that truth is stranger than flicktion.
When a marketing bod pretends to be a 12-year-old computer nerd and leaves made-up reviews of his own products all over the blogosphere - it's known as a fake blog or flog. Like fake hair, fake nails and fake tans - fake blogs are cheap and nasty. It’s not a good look.
Folksonomy refers to people classifying their blogs, web pages and pictures with informal descriptions or tags. So on Flickr, the tags for a picture of freshly-cut grass might be green; spring; nature; hay fever; sniffles; headache. Folksonomy are also people who go to barn dances.
to the ancient one in Rome, a forum is an online meeting place for open discussions on various topics. When you enter a forum you’ll see the topics and threads that have already been posted. You can reply to these or start your own. ‘So, what have the Romans ever done for us?’
Friends are the people whose profile you’re linked to on social network sites like Facebook. Friends can be someone you’re actually friends with. Or someone you vaguely know who asked you to be their friend and you were too chicken to say no. So no-one told you life was gonna be this way.
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