WIKI PROJECT : FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM
With the advent of the technology, people are more engaged in new social tools. Facebook, twitter and instagram are the most favourite social tools between people. Every people on the world has at least one account of them. We picked up a video for you which explains what is social media. we hope you enjoy video and our project.
Now let's look at meaning and functions of facebook, twitter and instagram.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social network and real-time
communication service launched in 2006 and used by millions of people and
organizations to quickly share and discover information. The word Twitter comes
from the frequent chirping sound made by birds, hence the bird used in the
Twitter logo. Users can access the site via the web and mobile devices to
exchange frequent bite-size updates of information called 'tweets' which are
messages of up to 140 characters long that anyone can send or read. These
messages or tweets are public by default and visible to all those who are
following the tweeter. Twitter allows you to follow other users you are
interested in so that you'll see their updates on your home page, which is an
aggregate feed of all the accounts you’re following. Users share these tweets
which are micro-bits of information that can contain things like photos,
videos, quotes, article links and more. Each tweet can also have replies from
other people creating real-time conversations around hot topics, breaking news
and interesting new content. Twitter was able to disrupt traditional
point-to-point messaging systems like email by providing this one-to-many
interface for rapid content delivery and search. But Twitter has evolved from
more than just a real-time communication tool into one of the world's leading
sources of social discovery and newsworthy events. This open networking
environment has also led to an entire ecosystem built around the Twitter
platform coined the 'Twitterverse' where creative people, designers, marketers
and businesses can flourish together.
History of Twitter
Twitter originally started off as a Podcasting
company called Odeo before pivoting into the microblogging service we know and
love today. If it wasn't for Apple releasing podcasts via iTunes and scaring
Odeo out the water, we might of never got Twitter!
Twitter Terminology
The key to navigating Twitter is to master the lingo. The Twitterverse has
it's own set of vocabulary you'll be sure to see flying
around in tweets.
- Tweet
A standard message on Twitter containing 140 characters or less.
- Retweet
A tweet that has been reshared to all of a users' followers.
- Hashtag
The # symbol is used to tag keywords or topics in a tweet to make it easily
identifiable for search purposes.
- Mention
Tweets can include replies and mentions of other users by preceding their
usernames with the @ sign.
- Handle
- Feed
The stream of tweets on your Twitter homepage comprised of all the accounts
you follow.
- Lists
Twitter provides a mechanism to list users you follow into groups or
curated lists showing tweets of all the users in the list.
- Direct Message
Also called a DM, this represents Twitter's direct messaging system for
private communication amongst users.
Logo
Twitter has become internationally identifiable by its signature bird logo.
The original logo was in use from its launch in March 2006 until September
2010. A slightly modified version succeeded the first style when the website
underwent its first redesign.
On February 27, 2012, a tweet from an employee that works on the company's
platform and API discussed the evolution of the "Larry the Bird" logo
with Twitter's creative director and it was revealed that it was named after
Larry Bird of the NBA's Boston Celtics fame. This detail had previously been
confirmed when the Boston Celtics' director of interactive media asked Twitter
co-founder Biz Stone about it in August 2011.
On June 5, 2012, Twitter unveiled its third logo redesign, replacing Larry
the Bird with an updated icon simply named as the "Twitter Bird." As
of this logo revision, the word "Twitter" and the lowercase letter
"t" are no longer used, with the bird becoming the sole symbol for
the company's branding. According to Douglas Bowman, designer of Twitter, the
new logo resembles a Mountain Bluebird.
FACEBOOK
Facebook is an online social
networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial
name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university
administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other.
It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard
University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to
Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online
facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking
users to choose the 'hotter' person"
To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked
into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses'
private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student
"facebook" (a
directory with photos and basic information), though individual houses had been
issuing their own paper facebooks since the mid-1980s. Facemash attracted 450
visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.
Initially membership was restricted to
students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half
the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service. Eduardo
Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew
McCollum
(graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the
website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New
York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.
In mid-2004, entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising
Zuckerberg, became the company's president. In June 2004, Facebook moved its base
of operations to Palo
Alto, California. It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The company dropped The from its name
after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
Facebook has a lot of facilities. For
example; users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests,
contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with
friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature.
They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages"
(called "fan pages" until April 19, 2010), some of which are
maintained by organizations as a means of advertising. Facebook has been
prompted to add a "third gender", "other", or "intersex" tab in the gender option which
contains only male and female. Facebook refused and said that individuals can
"opt out of showing their sex on their profile". A 2012 Pew Internet
and American Life study identified that between 20–30% of Facebook users are
"power users" who frequently link, poke, post and tag themselves and
others. The user page is set up in a minimal fashion with blue as the main
color. This was done because Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. The media
often compares Facebook to Myspace, but one significant difference between the
two Web sites is the level of customization.
After a while, On September 6, 2006, a News
feed
was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights
information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the
user's friends. This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these
features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract
attention to their profile or cause. Initially, the News Feed caused
dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and
full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy
for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes,
events, and conversations with other users).
One of the most popular applications on
Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums
and photos. Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos,
compared with other image
hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos
that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were
limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased
to 200 photos per album.
There is another important subject which is
privacy settings. Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting
the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album
can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy
of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another
feature of the Photos application is the ability to "tag", or label, users in a photo. For
instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend
in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been
tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo. To allay concerns
about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and
choose who can see specific parts of their profile. The website is free to
users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads. Facebook requires a user's name and profile
picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who
sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in
searches, through their privacy settings.
Also there is like button in facebook. The like button is a social networking feature, allowing
users to express their appreciation of content such as status updates,
comments, photos, and advertisements. It is also a social
plug-in of the Facebook Platform – launched on April 21, 2010 – that enables
participating Internet websites to display a similar like button.
When it comes to social aspect of Facebook,
it has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. With
its availability on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously
stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are
in the world, as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite
people with common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and
has been known to reunite lost family members and friends because of the
widespread reach of its network. One such reunion was between John Watson and
the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after Watson found her
Facebook profile. Another father–daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton
and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.
I tried to explain the most popular social
media nowadays in my article. Now you know facebook’s history, its facilities
and advantages. At first when I read the history of it, I was shocked. I think
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INSTAGRAM
If you're involved on
social networks like Facebook or Twitter, you may have come across a photo or
two that looks like it had a very elegant vintage filter applied to it. In
fact, you may have come across more than just one or two considering the fact
that Instagram is one of the most popular mobile photo apps to download.
If you own an iPhone,
iPad or iPod Touch, Instagram could be a great tool to help uncover
your inner photography skills.
Instagram: A
Vintage Photography Smartphone App
Put simply, Instagram
is a photo app that is available for free from the iTunes App
Store and fromGoogle Play. If you own a Blackberry, a Windows Phone or
anything other than a mobile Apple device or Android device, you won't be able
to use Instagram. The app is currently only available for Apple and Android
devices.
Creating an Account
on Instagram
Before you can start
using the app, Instagram will ask you to create a free account. All you need is
a username and a password. The reason they require you to create an account is
because Instagram is not just a photo app. It's also a popular social network.
Instagram as a
Social Network
On Instagram, you can
follow other users' photo streams as they post them and you can be followed
back by those users (or other users) as well. Using the "Profile"
icon located on the lower menu of the Instagram screen, you can search for
friends by name or find friends that are already connected to you on other
social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
When you decide to
follow a user, that user's Instagram photos will appear in your feed, which can
be found under the "Feed" icon on the lower menu. You can press
"Like" on any photo to let someone know that you admire their
photography, or you can leave a comment.
When you take photos
using the Instagram app, they will always appear in the feeds of the users who
are following you. You can browse through the "Explore" tab to find
new users to follow and creative photos to look at.
Taking Photos and
Applying Photo Filters
After downloading the
app from the App Store and creating an account, you can open the
app up and snap a picture through your camera, using either the back or front
camera. There is a menu at the bottom of the screen, and you can snap a photo
by pressing the camera icon in the middle of the menu, labeled
"Share."
Once you select the
green checkmark on your snapshot, you will be able to instantly transform the
color, texture and overall look of your photo with just a touch of your finger.
The available filters appear at the bottom of the screen.
You can apply each
filter as a preview to see how each filter looks. Pressing the green checkmark
will the set the chosen filter for your photo. You will then be taken to a
screen where you can set up sharing on other social networks and where you can add a caption to the
photo.
Sharing Your
Instagram Photos on the Web
You can configure your
Instagram account to have photos posted on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr or
sent by email. If these configurations are all set to "On," then all
of your Instagram photos will automatically be posted to your social networks
automatically after you press "Done."
Don't worry, Instagram
will always take you to the social network configuration page after you snap
each and every photo. If you don't want your photo shared on any particular
social network, simply set the configuration to "Off."
Additionally, you can
switch the "Add to your Photo Map" option to "On" if you
want to tag the photo's location to your personal Instagram Photo Map. If you
do, you can then select "Name this location" to attach a venue's name
to the photo as well.
Keep in mind that
Instagram users will still be able to view your photos in their feeds, if they follow you. You must delete your
photos from Instagram if you don't want anybody to view them.
QUESTIONS
???
2) Do you think these types of social
medias are really useful for communication or not?
NEWS
CONJUCTIONS
· The adjustments are contained in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Act, or as it has been nicknamed, the "Instagram
Act", which was passed through Parliament last week.
· We haven't seen the final wording of the Act yet, but all details regarding what a diligent search requires will follow.
· Nevertheless,
if a diligent search
doesn't require much effort, publishers could be using users' images for
promotional material on the basis of a simple Google search.
· "Even though it's now law, I'm working the basis of the most
recent draft of the bill which was in February," Rendle said.
RELATIVE CLAUSES
·
We spoke with Adam Rendle, an associate lawyer at law firm Taylor
Wessing, who explained
what these changes mean to social media users.
·
It would either have to go to the person who has been authorised by the SOS to grant orphan
works licenses
NOUN CLAUSES
· Rendle made clear that, unlike what many media outlets are reporting, the change in the law doesn't automatically change
the policies of social media websites such as Facebook or Instagram.
· to prove a work is "orphan", the would-be user has to show that the original copyright owner cannot be found
by carrying out a "diligent search".
· We don't know exactly what
a diligent search means yet, because the full final version of the Act hasn't
been published.
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