Test Your Social Media Knowledge

Question 1: How did MySpace originate?
As a place for people to display their personality through profiles.
As a place for alumni to reconnect.
As a place for musicians to showcase their music.
As a place for singles to meet each other.

Question 2: What was Facebook's original target audience?
Anyone with internet access
College students
High school students
Working Professionals

Question 3: What does it mean to "Digg" something?
To really like it.
To look for it using a shovel.
To describe something in 140 characters or less.
To share content on a website where people can comment and vote on it.

Question 4: Which site is the most similar to Flickr?
YouTube
Yelp
Digg
Delicious

Question 5: When someone subscribes to your Twitter updates they become your:
Fan
Follower
Friend
Contact

Question 6: What is one thing that you cannot upload to Facebook to share:
Your pictures
Your videos
Your writing
Your music

Question 7: Which of the following is NOT a location-based social network?
Loopt
Tumblr
Four Square
BrightKite

Question 8: Twitter's search function originated as a separate company that Twitter bought. What was the name of this company?
TwitSearch
Twearch
Summize
Seetweet

Question 9: According to statistics provided by Facebook, how many connections does the average user have on the site?
70
120
200
500

Question 10: If you want to pass along information on Twitter, what abbreviation is appropriate to use?
RT
DM
TY
PS