 Using social media for personal reasons. Social media. Websites that bring people together to make friends, to share interests, and to share information online are called social media. Facebook is an example of social media. Personal. Personal things are private and are separate from work and school. People use social media for many personal reasons, like looking at pictures of family and friends. Online tools. Online tools are useful features or applications, apps on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Google's calendar is an example of a useful online tool for staying organized. Email. Email is an online tool used to send messages from one person to another using a computer. You can send personal email to your friends and family. Inbox. An inbox is a place to receive new messages. It is like a regular mailbox, except that it holds electronic messages instead of paper messages. Discussion. During a discussion, you talk or write about something with other people. Your teacher might ask the class to have an online discussion about a topic using the discussion board. Post. When you post to a discussion board, you are sharing your opinion online with your classmates. Post means to write something online for others to read. Reply. Reply means to respond to someone. In email, reply means to send a message back to the person that wrote to you. Reply can also mean to respond to a discussion post. Chat. Chat is a text-based online communication tool. Chatting happens in real time, which means that you type your thoughts to other people and they respond immediately. Blog. A blog is an online tool that lists text, images, and information in a chronological order. Blogs are usually personal to the person posting. Hobby. Hobbies are personal. A hobby is an activity you like to do in your spare time or free time. You might have a hobby like looking for recipes online or collecting something. The end.