Tips on how to stay safe online during the COVID-19 pandemic
Learn about the latest games, apps and social media, including how to protect your information and report inappropriate content. More coming soon!
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OnlyFans is an online content subscription service where you can receive payment for the content you post by charging your followers, who subscribe to your content for a monthly subscription fee.
Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter game by Blizzard.
Peeks Social is an online streaming platform and social network where you can watch and follow streamers and broadcast your own live video streams.
Periscope is a live streaming platform that allows you to broadcast a live video recording to your followers who can comment, ask questions and send hearts in real time.
Photo Roulette is mobile photo sharing game that you can play with three to 10 people.
PlayStation Network (PSN) is an online service that lets you connect with other online gamers, and purchase games and media via the PlayStation Store.
Pokémon Go is a monster hunting game that uses your phone’s GPS and camera to create an augmented reality (AR) world inhabited by Pokémon (Pocket Monsters) that you must catch to advance through the game.
Qooh.me is a social media service that allows people to anonymously ask questions about users. People asking questions are not required to join.
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion site where you can share stories, links, images and videos, send messages and group chat.
Rocket League is a video game the combines arcade-style soccer and driving games.
Scrabble Go is a mobile word game developed by Scopely, where you create words to build a crossword and score points.
Second Life is a 3D virtual world created by its users who make their own avatars and are able to interact with other avatars, places and objects.
Seesaw is an online remote learning and communication platform designed for teachers, students and parents.
Signal is an encrypted private messaging app owned by the Signal Foundation. You can send messages, make audio and video calls, send voice notes, images and videos to your contacts which are secure, untracked and free.
Skout is a location-based social network and dating app that connects people by location or personal preferences
Skype is an audio and video calling app that allows you to video chat, instant message and make voice calls with other people, anywhere in the world, in real time.
Spotafriend is an app for teenagers to connect and become friends with other teenagers in their local area.
Steam is a gaming platform that allows you to download, purchase, and play game titles, and to set up a profile to communicate via messaging, chat and voice.
Subway Surfers is a single player mobile gaming app and website. The aim of the game is to outrun a train inspector while dodging oncoming trains, barriers and other objects.
Tango is an interactive video broadcasting, messaging and social networking platform which allows you to watch and follow streamers, broadcast videos and connect to people nearby using geo location technology.
Telegram is a secure messaging and audio calling cloud-based app that allows you to send messages, photos, videos and files of any type to your contacts for free.
Tellonym is an anonymous mobile messaging and social networking app. It allows you to send messages or ‘tells’, to strangers without revealing your identity.
Tinder is a location-based dating app. You can 'like' another user by swiping right or 'pass' by swiping left on them. If you and another user match, you can start chatting.
Tumblr is a microblogging platform for users to share their artwork, writing, photos, audio and videos with a worldwide audience.
Twitch is an online streaming platform and social network where you can watch or broadcast live streams and pre-recorded videos, and chat with other users
Twitter is a social media service that lets you publicly share short posts or tweets that are limited to 280 characters of text.
Vimeo is an online video hosting and sharing site where you can view and post videos, leave comments and follow other users.
Wattpad is a social media service where writers and readers can share stories, comment on stories, add profile comments and send and receive private messages to one another.
Cisco WebEx is an audio and video web conferencing platform.
WeChat is a Chinese platform that is used world-wide. It combines social media posting, chat, messaging, video/voice and payment services in the one platform.
WhatsApp is a free messaging, voice and video calling app that uses end-to-end encryption.
Whisper is an anonymous messaging app owned by MediaLab.AI.
Wickr Inc. produces three secure messaging and collaboration apps called Wickr Me, Wickr Pro and Wickr Enterprise.
Words With Friends 2 is a single or multiplayer mobile word game, developed by Zynga.
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment.
