Vocabulary and Methods
An icon or figure representing a particular person in video games, Internet forums, etc.
What is an avatar.
Nearly 25%, 50% or 75% of teens say they have posted something online that they later regretted.
What is 50%
This behavioral urge to constantly check your smartphone, often driven by a desire for a dopamine hit from notifications, is commonly referred to as "nomophobia."
What is phone addiction?
This is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages.
What is Twitter .
This is the most searched game on Google as of March 2026.
What is Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) and block-building sandbox titles like Roblox and Minecraft.
A type of online journal or website that is usually updated by an individual or group. It rhymes with "frog."
What is a blog.
In a poll by Pew Research taken in 2025, 25%, 50%, or 75% of teens say they think they're addicted to their smartphones
What is 50%.
Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all examples of this. Hint: web b******
What is a web browser.
As of April 2026, this was the largest internet-based retailer in the world, based on total sales.
What is Amazon.com.
What is the most trending song now?
What is Taylor Swift's "Patient Zero" and Drake and Don Toliver's "Solar Eclipse" ?
Small text files placed on your device by the sites you visit that collect information about your device and your activity are
What are
cookies?
This is a social media platform that allows users to send photos to friends that can be viewed for a set amount of seconds (1 to 10) before self-destructing.
What is Snapchat.
This is a free website where users can upload, save, sort, and manage images and other media content through collections known as pinboards.
What is Pinterest.
What is the most Googled sport?
What is
Name at least two ways you can protect your privacy?
What are
creating strong passwords
not accepting cookies
VPNs
This brain chemical, often called the "feel-good" neurotransmitter, is released when you achieve a goal, eat your favorite food, or win a video game.
What is dopamine?
Any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.
Hint: it's not "software," it's "***ware"
What is malware.
This company developed the most used search engine in the United States.
What is Google.
Name one strategy that helps you break a screen/phone addiction.
What is:
*Turn on grayscale
*Kill notifications
*Remove social apps
*Complicate access: Disable facial recognition or fingerprint unlock. Use a long, numerical passcode to make opening the phone a conscious, annoying chore.
*Keep it out of the bedroom:
*Establish phone-free zones
*Hide the device
*The first and last hour rule: Do not look at your phone for the first hour after waking up or for the final hour before going to sleep.
*Schedule check times: Instead of reacting to every buzz, pick three or four specific times during the day to check messages.
*Plan offline activities
The illegal act of sending emails that appear to be from authentic sources, but are really from spammers. Hint: The term sounds like a sport that uses a hook and some bait.
What is phishing.
The percent of teens who have said something bad about someone online that they would not have said in person is either 25%, 50% or 75%.
What is 25%.
This is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a digital camera or camera phone held in the hand or supported by a stick.
What is a selfie.
This is the number one video platforms for teens (as of spring 2026)
What is YouTube.
Name 1 of 5 most-searched musical artists on Google in 2026.
Who are