Expressions for Social Media in English
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are going to talk about social media
vocabulary i made a big list of some key
vocabulary words that we use on social
media and sometimes in texting too so i
hope that this lesson
will include a lot of vocabulary words
that you can use right away in your
everyday online internet life so this
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these are our topics for today first i’m
going to talk about social media basics
so very basic vocabulary for social
media
second engaging with others so how do we
communicate with other people what are
key words and finally we’ll do some
other keywords stuff that’s really
common or really interesting stuff
that’s important to know so let’s get
started let’s begin with social media
basics so what are the basic vocabulary
words we use
in social media
let’s start with the first one
this is a verb to post
to post
oh i forgot
i forgot to like and share look at me
like share boom okay good now i’m ready
okay
okay social media basics so to post
something this is a verb yeah to post
something
means to upload and make content public
to upload and make content public for
example i posted past tense i posted a
picture on instagram i posted a picture
on instagram
or
don’t post your personal information
don’t post your personal information so
the pronunciation of this is post
post sometimes i hear learners say post
not correct we don’t say post this is
post
post okay so to post something to post a
picture to post your personal
information
okay
we can also use
post as a noun
a post a post so a post is a piece of
content so one picture or one instagram
like
uh item one item on instagram or a video
is a post yeah so a post is a piece of
content for example
i saw your post on facebook i saw your
post on facebook
or as a question
did you see my new instagram post
so we use post as a noun and as a verb
okay
then
the next one this is a verb
to edit
to edit so to edit means to change
something about a post to change
something about a post for example
you add
or remove
text
or pictures or links and so on
yeah for example
i edited my post to include a link i
edited my post to include a link this
means i changed my post
and i added a link i edited my post to
include a link so when you want to
describe adding something putting
something new in your post you can use
this i edited my post to include the
preposition here is two two include a
link okay
all right or another one
he edited out
some personal info
he edited out some personal info you
might be like what is this edit it out
this edited out means he changed the
post
to remove information
what information did he remove
personal information so personal
information
we use this edited out he this is this
sounds strange like if i say it slowly
it’s edited out but
in regular speech we say he edited out
some personal information edit it out
yeah so he edited out some personal
information he removed some personal
information he edited the post
okay
all right then
the last one here is to delete to delete
so to remove something from social media
to remove something you completely
remove it 100
gone
like can you delete that photo can you
delete that photo it’s embarrassing
four
i deleted my emotional tweets i deleted
my emotional tweets
okay
so we can use delete also some uh some
social media platforms like instagram
they have the archive
feature so you don’t delete completely
something but if there’s like a picture
if you have an instagram post and you
like it but you want to keep it private
you can archive
the post yeah so to archive means to
hide it from other people
on instagram in this case so there are
some different features on different
social media platforms
julio says can i use to share instead of
to post uh maybe i’m going to talk about
that in part two share and post are not
necessarily the same thing
okay other questions alaratam for
uploading instagram stories is it also
post ah like to post an instagram story
yes we can use post like i posted an
instagram story or we also use uh put up
like i put up an instagram story
you might hear that too to put up to put
up or to post
or sometimes people just say upload i
supposed to in my case when i put
something on instagram stories
post i think i usually use post either
post or put up
those are the two i use maybe different
people use something different but yes
you can use post for instagram stories
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engaging with other people okay
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let’s go to part two part two so
part two engaging with others we have a
lot of words here uh these are mostly i
chose all okay i did i chose all verbs
for part two there are some more um
interesting expressions in part three uh
youtube uh
moderator can we check the chat there’s
some flooding we’re gonna talk about
that word later uh so
let’s look at engaging with others okay
so first i tell you this every week to
like to like something means to push the
like button on a post to push the like
button on a post or on other content on
other content oops my tea got kind of
smooshed there on other content okay so
when we push the like button we say i
like this thing or if you’re on facebook
you can hit like like or love or you can
make a sad face now so there are
different things you can do with that so
like on a post or other content yeah
okay cool
uh all right
then the next one someone asked earlier
to share
to share what’s the difference so to
share means to share oh my gosh i erased
it again sorry
my fingers are erasing things today oops
to share someone’s content with other
people to share means to share someone’s
content with other people so for example
at the beginning of this live stream i
always say please like and share the
video right so that means hit the like
button and share this post so someone
said is share the same as post so
usually share means you are you are
posting someone else’s content right so
yes you can share something you’ve made
like
in general everyday english but when we
talk about the share button
on social media it means we are we are
posting someone else’s content so that’s
the difference uh at least in the
internet world yeah okay
uh i’m looking for your questions
i don’t see okay so this is to like and
to share then for twitter users if you
like to use twitter these two are unique
to twitter so we have to retweet and to
quote tweet to retweet and to quote
tweet to retweet if we break this word
down to tweet means to write something
on twitter
the prefix re means to do something
again right so to retweet something
means to share
someone’s retweet on your twitter page
to share so this is like the share
button for twitter to retweet you might
see this as rt on twitter
you can retweet your own tweet now too
so if you want to share something again
you can use retweet to do that
and to quote tweet qt a quote tweet
means to share someone’s tweet
and add your own response to it so if
you use twitter maybe you see this
there’s a box on mobile anyway the
mobile twitter version
you can see the original tweet the
original comment and then you can add
your reply to it so maybe you do this
with the news or your friend’s post or
something like that okay
cool all right
then on we go i just used this word here
to flood okay so to spam and to flood to
spam and to flood what do these words
mean to spam means to send unwanted
messages or to send lots of messages to
spam something we use spam for messages
like emails yeah
so this is as a verb
so when you send lots and lots of
messages in the chat like sometimes
happens sometimes someone like sends a
bunch of messages we say that’s called
spamming yeah so to spam something is to
send a lot of unwanted messages we use
this verb outside of texting and
communication for example if you play
video games
and you use the same like strategy or
you use the same move over and over and
over and over again in a fight sometimes
people describe that as spamming the
move yeah so like to spam a certain move
means to do it over and over and over
and over usually spamming is very
annoying
okay uh also spam can be used as a noun
so we can say this message
or like uh this is like a spam
uh this is spam or this is a spam email
so sorry that’s as an adjective
yeah uh but we can also use it in
different parts of speech
so spam email
okay all right
let’s go to
flood the next one i just used this one
in the chat to flood to flood
so to flood
this is specific to fill a chat
or someone’s email or message box with
messages so this just happened in the
youtube chat someone
wrote the same message like 20 times and
that’s called
flooding so to flood the chat means to
just post a bunch of stuff in a chat box
or in someone’s email inbox just sending
so many messages that’s called flooding
we use to flood so in my example i said
please don’t flood the chat please don’t
flood the chat right so that means
don’t post lots of messages at the same
time
neo is spam also canned food yes that is
the noun form of spam uh
so spam is also a food yes okay
something that is edible is spam
okay awesome so this is to spam and to
flood there is some overlap between the
two
okay then i want to talk about this one
here to go viral to go viral to go viral
means to have content become popular
among thousands of people usually for a
short time so when
it’s often like a video or a picture
that goes viral sometimes it’s in the
news sometimes it’s a really funny video
on the internet right so when thousands
and thousands of people see the video
they like it they share the video they
post about it
this is called going viral this is how
we explain it in english for example oh
my gosh my video is going viral oh my
gosh my video is going viral that means
my video
progressive tense here is going is now
increasing so that means lots and lots
of people are watching my video right
now it’s increasing in popularity
okay
so this is called going viral going
viral
uh all right
cool
um
alaradam says facebook has different
reaction buttons what is the verb for
them we still use like for facebook we
don’t say like uh i
sat in your post
really i have seen some people uh
there’s on some text message
applications you can write a laugh to
respond to someone’s comment if someone
makes a joke so i have seen some people
saying haha as the verb for that like
she hahad my text
so i don’t know
if everybody uses that i love that i
think it’s really funny so when we want
to express i’m going to talk about this
later but when we want to express that
something is funny we will usually in
english type ha ha ha
and so we can react
to someone’s post uh in text message
with that so i have seen some people
make that a verb to haha a post
but i don’t think there’s an official uh
official verb for those yet but i love
that and then to take it away is to
unhaha a post
so i really like that i love it i i use
that but i don’t know if it’s official
yet
okay cool rodrigo says what about lol
and lmao yeah i’m going to talk about
that in the last part of today’s lesson
there are so
many of those i can’t cover them all but
i hope we can talk about the big ones
next this is so much fun okay so let’s
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have a few words i want to cover here if
you have questions uh about something
you found i will try to answer your
question uh the like internet vocabulary
changes and new words come up very very
fast so
maybe you have seen something i haven’t
seen it’s very possible but let’s talk
about some common
good to know vocabulary okay so first
one the first word here is meme
meme that’s how we say this m-e-m-e is a
meme
so what is a meme this is a noun a noun
so a meme is an internet joke
an internet joke or a digital joke
and it’s usually a picture and text
together a picture and text together so
maybe that’s a character
or maybe it’s a certain situation
whatever we call these kinds of picture
text jokes memes so maybe you follow
some meme instagram accounts yeah
or maybe you have a lot of memes saved
on your phone i know i do just silly
stuff basically just silly easy to
understand funny pictures text we call
those memes
okay
all right
uh on to the next one l-o-l someone
mentioned this in the chat earlier lol
uh this is very commonly used in the
english-speaking internet for laughter
so it can mean laugh out loud or
laughing out loud lol or some people say
law as well
usually though
not literally so if i type lol it’s kind
of more like a mood
thing so rarely does lol mean
we’re sitting at our desk like
maybe for some people they write that
but lol is like a mood like we maybe end
the sentence with lol to show we feel
kind of light-hearted yeah lol
okay
so someone else said lmao that’s another
one laughing my something off so i can’t
say it in this channel but we can use a
couple of other expressions we also i
talked about haha earlier to haha and
these kinds of things we use to express
laughter okay
then
i’ve got another uh this one i wanted to
include this is fairly recent this
vocabulary word this is a noun i’m sorry
this is a verb
it is to do scroll to doom scroll we use
this a lot on twitter so to scroll
on your phone right when you use your
phone your mobile device you go like
this yeah so you scroll this is called
scrolling yeah so the information goes
up and up and up on the page
doom
doom
so refers to
a feeling of serious danger feeling
like shock or unhappiness something bad
is going to happen or i need to get the
information if i don’t get the
information something bad will happen so
when we
this happens to all of us maybe we spend
a long time checking like the news or
something or like maybe our social media
feeds or something we scroll forever
reading shocking or emotional
information there is now a verb for this
people call this doom-scrolling
doom-scrolling yeah so for example in a
sentence stop doom-scrolling and go
outside so to doom scroll means to sit
on your phone for like hours and just
check news and feel bad yeah so it’s
kind of it’s a negative thing we don’t
use doom scrolling for positive
situations like when we see lots and
lots of positive news we don’t use doom
scroll for that
doom scroll is a negative thing
rodrigo says doomscroll stuff about
protests or health yeah exactly so when
we see lots and lots of bad news is
usually when we do scroll or like
there’s a like a terrible accident
somewhere or
yeah but generally it’s for bad news we
use doom scroll to talk about reading
lots and lots of bad news
okay i don’t see other questions okay so
let’s go to the last couple here some
basic ones uh that are important to know
to follow and to unfollow someone so to
follow and to unfollow someone means to
subscribe to
or to unsubscribe from
someone’s updates so
depending on the social media platform
you use there might be excuse me there
might be different words so like on
youtube
we say please subscribe to my channel
right please subscribe to my channel
that’s the preposition
if you want to stop
seeing someone’s updates on youtube we
use un
subscribe so un means not this prefix
means not so unsubscribe and the
preposition is from unsubscribe from i
unsubscribed from his channel
so i hope you don’t unsubscribe from
this channel or from my channel so
please subscribe to my channel don’t
unsubscribe
from my channel for example
of course other platforms like instagram
and twitter and facebook
use follow and unfollow someone and
facebook also has friend so
uh if you know a person
in real life you can add them as a
friend to add someone as a friend or
just to friend to friend yeah
okay
all right uh i don’t see other questions
so the last one i wanted to include is
to block someone to block someone means
to prevent someone from seeing your
updates to prevent someone from seeing
your updates so i blocked him from my
social media feed from my instagram
account i blocked her from my instagram
account that means they cannot access
your instagram account anymore with that
account so there are other security
things we can do depending on the
platform but block is on i think almost
every platform we can block someone
if we if we need to
okay
awesome
all right so that is everything i was
worried i wouldn’t get it through i
wouldn’t get all of it in but we made it
cool so those are a few vocabulary words
we can use
on social media so i hope that you can
use these right away uh and that they
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we talked about social media basics we
talked about engaging with other people
and we talked about some other key words
uh that are good to know as i said there
are a lot of vocabulary words lots of
silly expressions we use on social media
i can’t talk about them all because
there are so many but i hope that you
enjoy discovering them and maybe someday
i can make a different lesson about this
topic so we will end today’s video there
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