The eSafety Guide

Kick is an online streaming platform and social media service where you can watch or broadcast live streams and chat with other users.

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion site where you can share stories, links, images and videos, send messages and group chat.

TikTok is a social media app for creating, sharing and discovering short videos.

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

W App (also known as Slay) is a social media app for young people that lets you create a profile and interact with friends from your school by semi-anonymously posting and answering positive polls.

Roblox is a game-creation platform that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of games created by other users.

Minecraft is a virtual building game where you can create your own virtual world using building blocks and interact with other players.

Fortnite is a third-person shooter game where you can voice chat or message chat with other players.

Character.AI is an artificial intelligence chatbot that allows you to interact with digital characters.

Linky is an artificial intelligence chatbot that allows you to chat with AI characters and create your own character.

Replika is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that you can customise and learns and evolves as you interact with it.

Addchat is an app that lets you chat and share images with random strangers.

airG is a social chat and dating service where you can meet new people in your area, share updates and play games.

AllTrails is an online service that helps people discover and follow outdoor trails for activities like hiking, running, biking and walking.

Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice assistant, which can be used with voice enabled devices from Amazon and other companies.

Among Us is a cartoon-like action strategy game that can be downloaded for free on PCs or through app stores.

Animal Jam is an online game and associated app for kids where they can learn about the natural world, chat to other players and watch educational videos.

Apex Legends is a free-to-play multi-player battle game available on desktop, Xbox and Playstation.

An Apple ID is a personal account used to access all Apple services and products.

Borderlands 3 is a role-playing first-person shooter game published by Take-Two Interactive Software.

Call of Duty is a franchise of several multiplayer first-person shooter games published by Activision.

CapCut is a video editor and maker created by the company ByteDance.

Chai AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot platform that is often used for roleplay, story and character-driven chats.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot built by OpenAI, which allows people to interact in a conversational way.

Chatruletka is an anonymous online video chat platform.

Christian Mingle is a dating website and app for people looking for a relationship centred on the Christian faith.

Clash of Clans is an online multiplayer strategy game where you can build your own community, train your troops and attack other players.

Clash Royale is an online multiplayer card game by Supercell.

Cloudflare is a suite of secure online or cloud-based services designed for websites, APIs, corporate networks and distributed workforces.

Coverstar is a short-video social media app that describes itself as a child-friendly alternative to TikTok, but it has some risky features.

CSR Racing 2 is a multiplayer car racing game, where players compete in real time with anyone in the world, on mobile.

DALL·E 3 is a text-to-image generator that uses an artificial intelligence (AI) model to produce images based on textual descriptions and prompts.

DeepSeek is an AI assistant built on the DeepSeek large language model, which attempts to mimic human reasoning.

Discord is a social chat platform commonly used by online gamers that is available on computers and mobile devices, and accessible via a web browser.

Doki Doki Literature Club is a free-to-play psychological horror computer game that begins as a dating simulation about a high school boy pursuing different girls.

Dota 2 is a fantasy-style game consisting of two teams of five players.