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Answers

1. Grammarly
2. Microblogging sites
3. Hacking
4. Bookmarking sites
5. 280
6. Social news website
7. Facebook
8. Bookmarking websites
9. ZenPen
10. Instagram

Assignments

1. Provide a brief comment on your usage of social media and your future plans
regarding its usage.
2. What kinds of disadvantages do social media use present? Explain.
3. Analyse a small business’s or non-profit organization’s social media operations
and make suggestions for its development.
4. What are the major conventions of social media writing?
5. Which are the major tools for linguistic checks. Discuss their pros and cons.

Suggested Reading

1. Al-Deen, H. S. N. and Hendricks, J. A. Social Media: Usage and Impact. Lex-
ington, 2011.
2. Ball, C. E. and Kalmbach, J. Eds. Reading and Writing New Media. Hampton,
2010.
3. Barker, M. S., et.al. Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach.Cengage,
2012.
4. Chbeir, R. and Al Bouna, B. Security And Privacy Preserving In Social Net-
works. Springer, 2013.

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