get connected to digital literacy Super SOCIAL MEDIA and Awesome ONLINE SAFETY Clive Gifford
Keeping Touch in Facebook Snapchat Twitter Instagram these and many other applications called apps for short allow you to keep in touch with people using digital technology These applications are known as social media and they’ve changed the way people work live and communicate with others You can sometimes get useful information by reading content on social media sites and chatting with members of the site 4 You can share videos easily on many social media sites Share and share alike Traditional sources of information such as books and TV are created by a small number of people and are read or viewed by many people who usually have no communication with one another Social media is different because many people can create and share content and communicate with each other and with viewers Content can be words illustrations photos and videos It’s booming There are many reasons why social media is so popular today Most social media sites are free to use and it also makes staying connected with others easy and instantaneous Keeping in touch with messages is often as simple as a few clicks on a tablet smartphone or other digital device
Some social media apps allow you to alter pictures using filters or special effects For example you could turn your selfie into a doggie-you and share it with others People post news about themselves and their families and share news stories over social media TRUE STORY Tweets from the Top of the World In April 2010 adventurer Eric Larsen was the first person to tweet that is send a message using Twitter from the North Pole Later that same year he sent another tweet this time from the top of Mount Everest the highest mountain on Earth Content kings and queens Many types of social media help people produce their own content This means that users do not need special computer skills to create a personal page on a social media site or share a photo with their friends You can comment on Like or sometimes even share someone else’s content with others 5
