Glossary
A
activity log
A tool, accessed from the timeline page, that lets users view and manage all past Facebook activity.
album
A collection of photos or videos, organized around a user-created theme.
app
Short for application, a utility, service, or game that runs from within the Facebook website and shares users’ Facebook data.
B
blog
A website where the host records his or her personal opinions and information in the form of short “stories” or posts.
browser
A program, such as Internet Explorer, that displays web pages, such as Facebook.
C
CAPTCHA
A rather tortured acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” this is a text-based challenge-response test used to ensure a response is generated ...
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