( CNN ) -- If you 're African-American , you might have gotten `` the talk . '' It 's a discussion , usually with parents , about how they need to behave around police officers because of the color of their skin . On social media , many African-American users have used the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson , Missouri , to share their stories about `` the talk . '' On Twitter and Facebook , the hashtags # IGotTheTalk and # IGaveTheTalk have been trending topics since the shooting on Saturday . In the posts , users recount being taught , . `` Me and my brothers literally had to rehearse talking to the cops w/ my parents , '' wrote a Twitter user with the screen name @ HeDoinTooMuch . Other tweets have included : . . The Ferguson shooting has played out in a big way on sites like Twitter , where information spreads at lightning speed . Full coverage : Ferguson shooting . News of two journalists being arrested while covering the aftermath of the shooting went viral on social media Wednesday , focusing attention on what some in the town have compared to a war zone . And on Twitter and elsewhere , the `` hacktivist '' group Anonymous was working to expose the name of the officer who shot Brown before police revealed his identity on Friday . In a related viral trend this week , students and other social media users -- many of them black -- shared images of themselves with their hands up in the air . At Howard University , students at a back-to-school housing meeting posted a photograph in which hundreds stood in the `` hands up '' position , which witnesses say Brown had done to show he was unarmed before he was shot . In a Facebook post Thursday , the historically black university in Washington said that it was `` proud of our students who have united peacefully to show they will not stand for the senseless violence anymore . Thank you to the Howard University Student Association for leading and organizing this display of solidarity . '' Complete coverage of the Ferguson shooting and protests .
Ferguson shooting prompts # IGotTheTalk trend . Score: 6 Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police while unarmed . Authorities say shooting came after a convenience-store robbery .