Working with a partner, give the context for and explain each of the following phrases that you heard in the report.

Types of Social Media Web Sites

There are so many social media websites – both small/niche (like PR Open Mic specifically for public relations professionals) and large (like Facebook). It’s good to go niche because it’s very targeted – but it may also have less traffic. A larger social network has a general focus but gets more people because it’s a 1-stop place to connect.

There are 5 categories of social sites in general.

1. Social news websites where you submit news and share it with others: Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy
2. Social sharing websites where you share pictures and video: Flickr, YouTube
3. Social networking sites where you interact with people: LinkedIn, Facebook
4. Social answer sites like Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia
5. Social bookmarking sites where you save your favorite web sites online where others can see them and you can see who else bookmarked them: Delicious, StumbleUpon.

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SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES

LISTENING (true/false/not given statements 3:28)

Did you know that…

· By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb "facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles or updating one's own.

· In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as their new Word of the Year.

· In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared their word of the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”

· A few years ago, anthropologist Robin Dunbar came up with an interesting theory about social networks. He stated that our brains alone can manage only a limited number of social contacts. Studying the social networks of apes, the number he arrived at was 148. Commonly rounded up to 150, this famous number is the Dunbar Number. Although the study didn't include humans, sociologists often cite Dunbar's number when discussing our social networks. Worth noting is the fact that the average number of "friends" in a Facebook network is 120, very close to Dunbar's magic number.

Watch a VOA report on Facebook, a website ranked as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users.

Working with a partner, give the context for and explain each of the following phrases that you heard in the report.

To have an online community of friends

To check in

To have a profile

To share updates

To go viral (about information)

To play out on Facebook

Are the statements below true, false or not given?

1. Each Facebook user has on average 130 friends and shares 70 bits of personal information - including home movies and family photos - every month.
2. Facebook's community is huge for our planet, and if Facebook were a country, it would be the third after the two most populous countries in the world.
3. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students.
4. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students.
5. The website's gaining eight new users every minute for the past 15 months.
6. Sharing too much information can tell on a person’s career development.
7. It was once an online destination only for college students.
8. Facebook's effect on the American political system became clear in 2008.
9. The fastest group of users is public figures.
10. Many new smartphones offer access to the Facebook services either through their web-browsers or applications.

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