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Replying and Forwarding an Email
Occasionally, you will need to reply to the sender or send the original message to another person/group. Following are
the steps to reply and forward an email:
Step 1: When you receive an email and you wish to send a reply to the same person, then, select the “Reply” button.
A compose window with the name of the recipient will be automatically filled in the Header— “To”.
Step 2: Add up the content and click “Send”.
Step 3: In case you wish to forward the same mail to somebody else, then, click on “Forward”. The content will be
copied with the cursor blinking in Header— “To” so that you can write the email address of the recipient— to
whom you wish to forward the mail.
Common Folders in Mailbox
Some of the common folders of mailbox are:
• Inbox: It contains the list of mails received in a mailbox. The unread mails are in bold. Most recent mails are arranged
on the top of the list. It provides us with different options to rearrange the mails in different order.
• Sent: It contains the list of the mails sent. The most recently sent mails will be arranged on the top of the list.
• Draft: It contains the list of the mails created but not sent. Sometimes, we write an incomplete mail and wish to send
it later, then, we can save it as a draft. Later, when we send it, then, it automatically gets removed from the draft.
• Spam: Spam refers to junk, unwanted, unsolicited mail sent to a large group of people for the purpose of advertising
their commercial, non-commercial or prohibited products. It is a way of marketing through the Internet where millions
of users are getting the same mail. A person who creates spam is called a spammer. Email service automatically
keeps spam mails in a spam folder of the mailbox.
• Trash: An email deleted by the user will be stored in the trash folder for a specified time. Also, a user has a choice of
recovering it back in case needed.
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media is sharing ideas and information in a community using Internet as a digital platform. Social networking is
the process of creating and maintaining a virtual community with the like— minded people or a group. It is an Internet
based media that provides facility to connect to family, friends, clients, customers, followers etc. Let us learn about
some of the social media websites.
Blogs
A website owned by a person or an organisation and containing posts in the form of a discussion
or informal conversation is called a Blog. The post appears in a reverse chronological order
where the most recent is on the top. It is an online journal where people can post their views
based on a specific subject like sports, politics, education, entertainment, music, celebrities,
cricket, news etc. Blogger
A typical blog contains text, images, audio, video, animation, links etc related to the subject. A blogger is a person who
runs and updates a blog. Now-a-days, most of the celebrities run their own blogs to increase their fan-following. Some
popular free blog publishing platforms are www.blogger.com, www.wix.com, www.wordpress.org, etc.
Twitter
It is an American social networking service where the registered users can post and read short
messages (tweets). The message may contain text, videos, animations, audios, images, etc. It is a
very popular social media platform available these days. People connect by following other people’s
Twitter
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