The eSafety Guide

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

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.

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.

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

X, formerly Twitter, is a social media service that lets you publicly share short posts that are sometimes limited to 280 characters of text.

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.

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.

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 was a social media service based on asking and answering questions, where posts could be anonymous.

Bluesky is a community-orientated social media service that lets you post 300 characters of text, as well as images and video.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

FIFO Life is a lifestyle app for fly-in-fly-out workers in Australia that lets you keep track of your roster and share it with family and friends.

Gas was a social media service for young people that let 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.