Texting Apps
• Free, fast, and no text limits. • Doesn’t store messages to phone. • Loaded with ads. • Promotes chats with strangers. • Linked with Oinktext and kikcommunity. • Shares usernames for others to contact you. kik • Free video chats and messaging. • Can have up to 12 people on a chat. • Only works with approved friends. • Friends must be on your contact list. • Used by predators to contact “minor” children.
ooVoo • Send text, video, audio, and photos. • Can send to one person or more at a time. • Made for ages 16 and up, however, anyone can get the app. • Auto connects to your address book.
• Connected to Facebook. • Friends must be on friends list. • Send text, video, audio, and photos.
Messenger
Revised 04/16 Micro Blogging Apps
• Snap, edit, and share photos. • Allows 15 sec. videos. • It can be public or private. • Show’s popularity by amount of “likes.” • Using # makes the pictures public unless you set it otherwise. Instagram
• Cross between a blog and twitter. • Scrapbook of text, photos, videos, and audio clips. • Seen by anyone • Easy to find porn. • 1st profile is always public, 2nd can be private.
tumblr • Short blog, brief messages called ‘tweets’. • Follow other users or they can follow you. • Private messaging is also available. • Profiles can be public or private.
twitter • Post and watch six second videos. • Full of inappropriate videos. • It is all public. • Anyone online can see it. vine • Type in location/how you feel/what you are doing. • Can share videos, pictures, or news articles. • Can add friends you know or don’t know. • You can change your privacy settings. • Anyone can make one. Facebook • Public, anyone can view it, comment on it, or share it. • Watch and upload videos.
Youtube
Revised 04/16 • Live video streaming app. • Everything is public. • It allows you to watch and broadcast live video from all across the globe.
Periscope • Public. • Can ask anyone question while remaning anonymous. • For ages 13 and up, although anyone can make a profile.
ask.fm • For ages 13 and up, although anyone can make a profile. • Broadcast your own videos. • Voted by a thumbs up or thubs down if they should continue to post videos. • Anyone can watch and record videos. YouNow • Public.
Self-destructive Apps
• Brief message. • Nearest 500 app users can see it. • Can find opinions, secrets, rumors, from a 1.5 mile radius. • Reveals location. Yik Yak • Time limit on pictures and videos. • Has an approved friends list. • Possible for receiving party to save the picture.
Snapchat
Revised 04/16 Chatting, Meeting, and Dating Apps
• Chat and meet new people. • Has a match feature. • Open network; whoever is online or local. • Asks for personal details. • Uses location tracking. • Teen and adult dating site, is not private. meetme • Chat sites, puts strangers together. • Uses text, chat, and video chat rooms. • Filters through people by interest. • No registration required. • All age ranges. Omegle • Has a teen only section. • No age verification needed. • Location based.
Skout • Photo and messaging dating app. • Location based. • Has a match feature. • Has geolocation, which means it’s possible for teens to meet nearby people, doesn’t matter to age. tinder • Connects to Facebook. • Has a match feature. • Free. • Location based. • Photo and messaging dating app.
Plenty of Fish P.O.F.
Revised 04/16