Unit 1 – Online World

 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Google
 YouTube

Service Available How might it be used? How do you use it?

Email Yes Receive and send emails Look at received emails
AOL

Chat Yes Receive and send emails Message family members

iMessage with attachments.

Forum Yes Make a post and people Reply in threads

Reddit reply in thread

Document sharing Yes Upload files and share them I use iCloud Drive so I don’t
iCloud Drive on the cloud. lose my files

Search engine Yes Search things up Search things up

Google

Platform Target audience How might people use How do I use it?
it?
Email Teenagers and adults This is the formal To look at emails.
process rather than
casual for stuff in life.
Messenger Teens To message friends Message family mainly
and family
Facebook Typically elderly It’s simple for them to I just look at my feed
people navigate through.
iCloud Teens, adults To save files in the Save files in the cloud
cloud and share them.
Google Anyone For research To search stuff up
Reddit Adults Talk about something I look at them when I
in a forum need the forum
Instagram Teens Talk to friends and see Message friends
what they’re getting
up to
Snapchat Teens Have fun with filters Look at snaps
Steam Teens Play and buy games Have a look at games,
discounts and play
them.
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Platform How effective is it?

Instagram It’s effective: you can search up posts and pages, message people etc.
Google It’s really effective because Google knows everything and it can answer all your
questions.
Snapchat Teenagers often use it, there are many fun things for them like streaks and
snaps (when you post something to them, they can only see it once unless they
replay it) so I think it’s very effective for that age group.
iCloud It does the job, keeps your files up in the cloud.
Reddit People can talk about whatever in the forum, and there are threads which is
on-topic.
Messenger Effective because everyone who goes on Facebook is on Messenger, and you
can use it without having to login to Facebook.
Facebook You can join groups, make pages, add information about yourself and
customise your profile. People interact when you do something.

Example of online services

Communication: We often chat in social media, for example Discord. Discord is often used by gamers
because you can play games while chatting as well, either in a call or in a voice channel.

Real-time information: We look at real-time information, and news is considered as real-time

information. Whatever something happens the news is always the first to report whatever’s going
on.

Commerce: this is also known as e-shopping. Amazon and eBay are the top ones to go to for online
shopping. You can sell whatever on eBay and on Amazon you can buy what you desperately need if
you have Prime. In eligible cities you can get same day delivery but nationwide it’s one-day delivery.

Government: our government website’s gov.uk. Not many people go on it but it is there if you need
to calculate tax, find out what the minimum wage is, find out what apprenticeships they’re doing
and benefits.

Education Virtual Download Business Entertainment

Learning Services
Environment
YouTube Teams Steam Intranet Instagram
Google VLE Origin TikTok
SAM Facebook
Skillshare Snapchat

Netiquette: network version of etiquette. Basically it’s manners and how you present yourself online,
its important nowadays because now there’s the report system and stuff like that.
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Profile: it’s who you are online, you can customise your profile picture and cover photo, add in
contact information about yourself and what you do.

Avatar: it can be you or anyone else in particular like your favourite character in social media, which
potentially hides your identity and replaces who you are online.

Network of friends: you can reach out to friends online, it can be the ones you met on the internet
or in real life.

Online community: it’s where everyone comes together and talk about what’s going on with
whatever it is they’re a community of.

Virtual World: everyone can come together online in a virtual world, think of it as you’re playing a
game and you’re in a real-life looking world. For example, Call of Duty.

Chat: it’s where you can chat to people, for example Discord and Instagram.

Chatroom: it’s how you can chat to people online. There are specific rooms just for chatting. This is
often in discord.