The eSafety Guide

Zoom is a remote conferencing service that allows you to communicate with other people through video and audio calling, chat, online learning and webinars. 

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

Omegle is a free online chat website that allows you to chat anonymously to strangers through text or video chat.

Snapchat is a messaging app that lets you send images, video or texts to friends. These images, video and text are only available for a short time before they disappear.

Instagram is a social media service designed for people to share photos and video.

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.

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.

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

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.

ASKfm is a social media service based on asking and answering questions, in which posts can be anonymous.

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

Bumble is a social media service used for friendship, dating and online networking that encourages women to make the first move.

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

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.

Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter video game where you form a team with other players of either terrorists or the government agents trying to stop them.

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.

eHarmony is a free dating website and app that uses an 80-question quiz to match you with potential dates based on your compatibility.

EliteSingles is a dating app designed for people over 30, with a university education, who are seeking long-term relationships.

Emerald Chat is a free online chat service that pairs two random users together in a text and/or video chat.

Facebook Messenger is a messaging app that lets you instant message, share photos, videos, audio messages and create group chats with your Facebook friends or phone contacts.

FaceTime is Apple’s voice and video calling app. It’s included with all their mobile devices and computers.

FetLife is a social network for the fetish (‘kink’) community, accessible via a mobile optimised website.

Gas is a social media service for young people that lets you interact with your friends by semi-anonymously answering poll questions.

A Google Account is an online account required to personalise results and sometimes access Google’s services and apps.

Google Assistant is the AI-powered and entirely cloud-based voice assistant used by many smart technologies, including Google Nest smart speakers and Android smartphones.

Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV) is an online action-adventure game made by Rockstar Games. It is one of sixteen titles in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise.

Grindr is a dating and meeting online app predominantly used by gay and bisexual men, and the trans community. It uses your device’s GPS to locate other users nearby.

Halo is a science-fiction first shooter video game series that has expanded to include comic books, novels, animated features, soundtrack albums and more.

happn is a location-based social media app which is mostly used as a dating service

Hello Tiger is a free dating app, similar to speed dating, which lets you interact with someone via one-minute video dates.

HER is an online dating service primarily used by female, non-binary and transgender people in the LGBTIQ+ community, who identify as lesbian, bi+ or queer.