Are you someone who spends hours on social media?
Well, I'm sure most of you probably are.
In fact, today people who don't spend time
on social media, they are very few.
So therefore, in today's lesson, I want
to bring to you a lesson where
we talk about the social media buzwords.
Believe me, there are several words that you
see and you use on social media and
you probably don't know the best words.
You're probably using very simple
or very basic English words.
And today's lesson is going to help you
elevate that to a little higher level. Okay?
So let's have a look at the
first word, which is Virtue Signalling.
Now, the word Virtue refers to good
or good things or good habits.
But what if you are signalling your
virtues or signalling your good habits?
Does that really make you a good person?
Well, let's take a look.
Virtue signalling is a person who attempts
to show that they are good by
expressing popular opinions on social media.
So believe me, there are some people who
want to show that they are good.
They're not really good, they just try
to express popular opinions on social media
just to sound nice and virtuous.
That's virtue signalling.
So Virtue Signalling is very common amongst celebrities
because they want to stay popular and relevant.
So you will see a lot of celebrities say
things like be kind, fight for the climate.
Well, that's Virtue signalling because you don't know if they
really are as good as they say they are.
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Anyway, back to our C one level
English words related to social media.
What's the next word?
We've had Virtue signalling, but now we've got ageist.
Now the word ageist has the word age in it
and therefore it means that you are discriminating people based
on age by favouring younger people over older ones.
Sadly, in today's day and age, we tend
to make sure that other people, especially younger
people, have more of chances, more of opportunities,
and the older people don't get as many.
So we can say the company's policy of only hiring
employees below the age of 30 is considered ageist.
You will see this word on social media.
You know now what it means.
We look at the next word, which is wanderlust.
Wander basically means to roam, and lust
means to want something very badly.
So if you want to roam very badly,
well, it refers to a strong desire to
travel and roam the world on social media.
You may have seen a lot of travel pics, right?
Maybe on Instagram or on Facebook.
Well, you will hear this word quite often.
So I would say her Instagram feed
is a visual feast of breathtaking landscapes,
a true reflection of her wanderlust.
Okay, I know a lot of you have those pictures.
Well, you are somebody who is smitten by wanderlust.
Let's go to our next expression, which is clap back.
Okay, what does this really mean?
This is not a nice clap.
This is not a clap which congratulates you.
But when you are clapping back, it basically
is giving a sharp response to someone who
has criticised, insulted or annoyed you online.
Have you heard of online trolls?
Those people who make those
really horrible comments at you?
Well, why don't you clap back?
Why don't you tell them what is really on your mind?
That's what clapping back is.
So the actress clapped back at the trolls
who shamed her for her choice of outfit.
Well, how many times you wear something that
you think is pretty, that you think you
look great in, but somebody has probably commented
something that you don't like.
Well, why don't you clap back?
You can actually do that.
Let's look at our next word, which is cancel culture.
We all know what it means to cancel someone, okay?
But when you have a cancel
culture, what does that really mean?
It means that you are withdrawing support for
popular figures because they have offended others.
Now, celebrities are obviously popular figures, and
they definitely become more popular when they
get the support of people like us.
But if you withdraw support from them, you
are cancelling them because they have probably offended
you or offended other people by their remarks.
So in a sentence, you could say, did you
know that Kanye West was the victim of cancel
culture when he tweeted some racist comments?
Well, last year, I'm not sure if you're aware,
but Kanye West, the famous singer and billionaire, he
actually was cancelled because of his racist comments.
He was the victim of what we call as cancel culture.
Moving on to our next word online mob lynching.
Now, the word lynch, okay, the word
lynch basically means to hang somebody.
To hang somebody in public.
And a mob is like many people.
So when many people are out to kill you and
hang you in public, that's not a very good thing.
But obviously this is not happening in real time.
It is happening only online.
And therefore this means groups of people who declare
a person as being guilty without a fair trial.
Now, sometimes you go online and you say something
and there are a group of people who think
you're really evil for saying what you said.
So what do they do?
They harass you, they think you're a bad person and
they keep talking all kinds of bad things about you.
What are they doing?
They are online mob lynching you. Okay?
So online mob lynching poses a serious threat to
individual safety and freedom of expression on social media.
It's really not a good thing because
you have groups of people targeting you.
And that's not a good thing because like I said,
like you can see over here, it is not secure
for you and it hinders your freedom of expression.
We look at the next
expression, which is moral policing.
We know what polices do.
What does the police do?
The police takes care of you.
They are in charge of your security.
But there are people who go
around being the moral police.
What does that mean?
They are online groups or people online that act
to enforce a code of morality in society.
They are the ones who've taken it upon themselves
to decide what is right and what is wrong,
what is moral and what is immortal.
Well, they are called the model police. Is that good?
Well, not so much, because in a sentence
you can say, who gives some online groups
the right to go about model policing?
The youth, I'm sure you've heard about some
groups say things like the youth should not
go to parties, should not wear certain outfits.
Well, who gives them the right to model police? US.
Right. Model police. The youth.
Well, that's your sentence with model policing.
But we have something really
interesting, which is fat shaming.
Well, fat refers to overweight people, people who
are obese or on the spectrum of different
weight, which is above the normal weight.
And if you shame somebody who is fat,
well, that's what fat shaming is, right?
So you are humiliating someone, making someone feel bad
for being overweight by maybe passing comments about their
size or just making them feel bad.
You can say fat shaming has always existed.
However, it is now being exposed as
a form of bullying on social media.
So when you tell people that they are fat and you
make fun of them, it's actually a form of bullying.
And that is called fat shaming if
you did not know about it.
We're now going to look at the last
social media buz word, which is fishing.
Now, don't get confused.
The word is not misspelt, okay?
We're not talking about fishing as
in going and catching fish.
We're talking about fishing with A-P-A PH. Okay?
What does this mean?
Let's take a look.
It's a fraudulent Practise of
tricking individuals, innocent individuals, into
revealing their personal information.
Today, because everything has gone digital, people can call
you and ask for your CVV number on your
card or ask for any personal information. Okay?
So you should not give it out to them
because if you end up giving it to them,
well, you are the victim of phishing, which is
a fraudulent activity practised by people online.
In a sentence you could say
phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated.
Don't click on any unidentified links.
Well, a lot of us, sometimes we see a
link and we attempt to click onto it.
Well, you never know, you might be the
victim of phishing, so be very careful.
Well, these are the social media buzwords that
you are going to be inundated with when
you keep going on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, whatever.
Well, you should know what they mean.
And now that you know, I'm sure you can
use these words when you are in discussions with
your friends or anybody in your social circle.
I'll be back with some more lessons.
Until then, this is me saying keep learning, keep
Practising and keep targeting advanced C one know English?