The eSafety Guide

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.

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.

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.

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

Adobe Connect is audio and video web conferencing platform by Adobe.

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

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.

Bigo Live is a live streaming platform. It lets you live stream video content to other users and watch other people’s livestreams.

Blackboard Collaborate is a web video conferencing and webinar platform used for online teaching and learning.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Element is an end-to-end encrypted communication and collaboration service that offers unlimited.

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

Gettr is a social media and microblogging service available globally through a website and dedicated apps.

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.

GoToWebinar is a webinar and online video conferencing service created by LogMeIn.

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.

Grok is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by xAI, a company owned by Elon Musk, that is integrated into the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and available through apps and a standalone website.

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

HTC Vive is an app that lets you control virtual reality (VR) headsets through a smartphone.

ICQ-Chat was one of the first online instant messaging platforms in the world.

KakaoTalk (commonly referred to as KaTalk) is a free messaging, video calling, and online services app owned by Kakao Corp.

LiveMe is a live streaming platform which lets you broadcast live video from your mobile device and view and comment on the broadcasts of other members.