Platform History
This app started as a place to share square photos with filters, before adding Stories, Reels, and video features over the years.
What is Instagram?
A short, catchy description you write about yourself at the top of your social media profile is called this.
What is a bio?
Facebook is free to sign up and use.
True
This app, owned by Google, lets you search and watch videos for free, from cat clips to full documentaries.
What is YouTube?
Before Facebook and Instagram existed, this social platform was the most visited website in the entire United States in 2006 — even beating Google.
What is MySpace?
This word describes endlessly scrolling through your social media feed, often without a specific purpose.
What is doomscrolling?
If you delete a post, all the comments and likes on it are saved automatically.
False
You use this app to send short messages that disappear after a few seconds.
What is Snapchat?
This professional social network was launched in 2003 making it one of the oldest major social platforms still in use today.
What is LinkedIn?
A short, funny image with text on it that gets shared widely online is called this.
You can use the same email address to create accounts on multiple different social media apps.
True
This app lets you share your thoughts in short posts, originally limited to 140 characters, and is now called 'X'
What is Twitter?
Facebook was originally only available to students at this one university when it launched in 2004.
What is Harvard University?
This term describes the invisible system that decides which posts you see first in your feed.
What is an algorithm?
A 'viral' post means it was reported for harmful content and removed.
False — 'viral' means a post spread widely and was seen by a very large number of people
Originally a place to share photos with friends, this app is now owned by Meta and also features 'Stories' and 'Reels'.
What is Instagram?
The very first social media platform that launched in 1997.
What is Six Degrees?
This word describes someone who has a significant number of followers and gets paid to promote products on social media.
What is an influencer?
If someone screenshots your 'disappearing' Snapchat message, you will always be notified.
True — Snapchat notifies you when someone takes a screenshot
This app, popular with crafters and home decorators, lets you save images you like to virtual 'boards'.
What is Pinterest?