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

By using the @ symbol, users can connect other users to a post or photograph. On some sites this content then appears on the tagged user’s profile.

• A hosting site for blogs, including photo-blogs, or blogs that consists of GIFs. • Users can follow other users’ blogs and comment on individual posts.

On Twitter, users’ posts are referred to as “tweets.” When users share other user’s tweets they are known as “retweets.”

• A social networking site where users share posts of up to 140 characters and/or photographs. • Users can tag each other in their posts, or send each other private messages (direct message). • Privacy settings: accounts (and therefore posts) are public by default, although users can change their accounts to be private.