Facebook – A large, international social network that originated as a system to link university students. Now that Facebook is public, anyone with an e-mail address can create...

Bit.ly – A website that allows a user to input a URL, or website address, and generate a shortened URL for easy use with Twitter and other social networking...

Places – A function of facebook that allows users to use geotagging on mobile phones to tag themselves at a particular location or to tag a location in a...

Group – A community aspect of Facebook, a group allows a collective of individual users to communicate with one another and share files in a controlled environment. Groups...

Blog – Short for “web log,” a blog is a site where a user can write his or her thoughts in article form, share links to other articles, and...

Social Media Monitoring – Social media monitoring is the process of tracking ways one’s company is mentioned on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter – A social networking site where users post status updates of 140 characters or less. Accounts can be public, where anyone can read these status updates, or locked,...

Share – A function of Facebook that allows users to click “Share” on a photo or link that a friend has posted to their News Feed and include that...

Message – Messages are text conversations sent between a limited set of 2 or more users. A user can send a message to one person or to a...

Blogroll – A list of links to other sites and blogs that a user recommends on their blog.