A terminology presentation by Mark Francis Cruz

Bachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

España, Manila

DIGITAL IMMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO NETIZEN LANGUAGE.

An E-mail is a method of mailing or transferring a message through digital postal services or mail servers like Yahoo!™,

Gmail™, Hotmail™, etc. You have to setup an e-mail address so that you can use this messaging device. It is the

same having your home address.

E-MAIL

• That is the World Wide Web abbreviated.• This is a system that links you to a interlinked hypertext

document.• You need a web browser to view these documents. An

example of a web browser is Internet Explorer.

WWW

Hypertext

Internet Explorer

This is the main mark-up language that is to be read by a web browser then translates it for us. Which makes the web page or the document presented by the web browser to be

more organized and looks better aesthetically and functionally.

HTML

An example of HTML

Universal Resource Locator. This is the address of the document you want to look for. The name of the place or

site it was set or put up. An example of a URL for this is the most common among Netizens, https://www.facebook.com.

With or without the ‘https://’ is fine because it is unnecessary.

URL

A URL address bar with a URL address.

Web feed updates contents from time to time. This signify that your page or pages are updated frequently. This is

commonly called as syndicated feed.

WEB FEED

A Web feed logo.

The VoIP is method of delivering a multimedia form ,either in audio, video, or both, of communication using an IP

(Internet Protocol) address.

VOIP

A communication that uses VoIP.

This consist of audios, ePubs (electronic books), videos, and PDF’s that you can view or listen to after you subscribe

with the site and downloaded a file of such type.

PODCAST

An example logo of PodcastKinds of files in

Podcasts

Kinds of files in Podcasts

This the on-time, on-the-spot playing of a video or an audio. This is typically referred to in medias. YouTube is one of the

sites that host streaming medias.

STREAMING

A player, streaming a video.

This is a process of connecting one user to another user on-time and on-the-spot. It is one of the means to connect with

friends and other people. It also allow the user to use a sample of the site as his/her own and put personal or public

information such as posting your day viewing on this presentation.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Usual Social Media that performs Social

Networking

This allows you to strike a conversation with another person using the site. Real-time, on-the-spot messaging

without the hassle of going to phases of sending an e-mail. But these are usually irreversible so be careful of what you

type, remember “Think before you click”

ONLINE CHAT

A kind of online chatting

Netizens usually call this as ‘tagging’. Social bookmarking is a link that allows you to go to a specific address without typing where it was. When clicked, it instantaneously point you to the address bookmarked by the ‘tagger’ or the one

who bookmarked it.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Examples of bookmarked sites

or address.

This is your electronic journal or diary that is saved in the internet, usually in a specific web server. A blog is usually

to share some experiences, ideas, or position in some stands.

BLOG

A blog site for bloggers blogging about

something.

It is a site that has a free access to information that you look for and allows you edit some of it. But its susceptibility

for editing renders it very hard to credit.

WIKI

An example of a Wiki.