TechnologyUseful Vocabulary for 2014

Mobile

• US word: cellular phone (“cell” for short)

• SmartPhone

• Applications – “Apps”

• Hence “WhatsApp”

• App Store, GooglePlay, Android Market

• Home

• Lock screen

• Mulitasking

Vocabulary

Lock Screen Home Screen

Multitasking Apps

• Tweet

• The thing with 140 characters

• Retweet

• When you share someone else’s tweet

• Favorite

• When you add it to your favorite list

• Reply

• When you give a response to someone’s tweet

Tweet Favorite, Retweet

• Mention

• “@KaitlynMc is the best sister ever!”

• Followers

• People who read your tweets

• Following

• People who’s tweets you read

• Direct Message (DM)

• Exactly what it says

• Notifications

• The thing you get when someone mentions you in a tweet (or replies to your tweet, or retweets/favorites your tweet)

• Profile

• Username, Location, Brief Description

• Unfollow

• Exactly what it says

• Hashtag - # (that thing)

• #ThingsYouProbablyKnewAlready

• Profile

• Wall

• Status update

• Mood

• Check-in

• Friend request

• Confirm

• Not now

• (Nice way to say “ignore”)

• Newsfeed

• Share

• Like

• Unlike

• Suggested Pages

• People you may know

• Comment

• Subscribe

• Follow

• Page

• Link

• Events

• Groups

• Poke

• Tagged

• Recently bought by Facebook

• Bye-bye privacy!

• What’s Up!

• Funny mistake from primary students

• Chats

• Contacts

• Status

• Favorites

WhatsApp in English

Text Message Lingo

• Lol• Brb• Thx• Cya• L8r• H8• Hmu• Idk• Wbu• Idc• Jk• Tbh

• Wtf• Gtg (g2g)• Fml• Omg• Nvm• Bff• Btw• Nbd• Ikr• Plz• Ttyl

Idk, my bff Jill?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o

• Useful for networking

• Seriously, use it!

• It’s professional social media

• Browse jobs

• US popular sites: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed

• Share job updates

• Post your resume for potential employers to see

• Even if you aren’t specifically looking for a job

Technology Lingo

• Google

• We use this as a verb to replace “search.”

• I don’t know the answer. Let’s Google it!

• No one says, “Let’s do a search for it!”

• It’s 2014

• VPN – Virtual Private Network

• Changes your IP address so it appears as though you are located somewhere else

• I do this to appear in the USA all the time

Technology Lingo

• Text

• We use this as a verb, too.

• “I’ll text you later!”

• No one over the age of 30 says, “I’ll send you a text message later.”

• Repeat, “I’ll text you later!”

• This also applies to WhatsApp.

• “I’ll WhatsApp you later!”

• Almost anything can be used as a verb

• WhatsApp, text, Google, Facebook (except Twitter)

• “I’ll Facebook you”

• “I’ll Google it”

• “I’ve got to Instagram this!”

Online Checks

• New trend in hiring process

• What are they looking for?

• Personality

• Professionalism

• Red cup photos are never a good idea to post online

• Talking about your employer

• Are you going to bad mouth them as an employee?

• First impressions

This applies NOW

• http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2014/03/teachers-read-tweets-about-themselves.html

Be careful what you post online!!