Glossary of Social Media terms according United Nations Office Drugs and Crimes (UNODC)

Many social networking sites have a button that users can click when they like the content of another user. On Instagram, for instance, this is a heart icon and on Facebook it is a thumbs-up. Facebook now offers other options, such as sad faces.

• A social networking site targeted at professionals. Users typically upload the information from their resumes and include a professional photograph. • Users are added to the same network when they “connect” with each other (send and accept an invitation to be added as a connection). Users can interact with each other by private messages. • Privacy settings: LinkedIn accounts may be viewed by all other LinkedIn users and a summary of information is typically available to non-users unless altered in the privacy settings. By default, other users also receive a notification that you have viewed their profile.

Many social media sites have the option of sending videos that are being recorded directly to the website as they are being recorded.