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Find out how to protect your personal information and report harmful content on common social media, games, apps and sites. Entries are for information only and are not reviews or endorsements by eSafety.
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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.
Addchat is an app that lets you chat and share images with random strangers.
Alibi Security offer a range of video surveillance technologies. Brands include Alibi Witness, Alibi Vigilant, Alibi Cloud VS and HDVision.
ASKfm is a social media service based on asking and answering questions, in which posts can be anonymous.
Bing provides a variety of search services, including images, videos, maps, news and an AI chatbot.
Cloudflare is a suite of secure online or cloud-based services designed for websites, APIs, corporate networks and distributed workforces.
Gab is a social media service, that lets you post text, images, videos and polls as well as generate images and interact with artificial intelligence (AI) bots.
Gas is a social media service for young people that lets you interact with your friends by semi-anonymously answering poll questions.
Kids Chat is a free online chatroom that you can join as an anonymous guest or sign up to.
Kik is a social messaging app that allows you to send and receive content to people and groups you know, as well as people and groups you don’t know.
LEGO Life is a social media app designed for children to share photos and stories of their LEGO creations.
LINE is an individual and group messaging platform that uses animated emojis called ‘stickers’.
Mastodon is a free, open-source social media service that lets you publicly share short posts that are limited to 500 characters of text.
Melon is a live video chat service that instantly and randomly pairs users with strangers from around the world.
Miniclip is a gaming site that hosts single player and multiplayer games, entertainment, educational art and animation creation software.
MyLOL is a social network and dating site for teens.
Nintendo Switch is a gaming console that can be used in three modes — TV, tabletop and handheld, allowing single player, multiplayer and online play.
No Cap is an app that lets high school students create or join a school page and make semi-anonymous posts about other students, teachers and their school.
OK Live is a social media service that lets you watch, create and share live streams from around the world.
Omegle was a free online chat website that let you chat anonymously to strangers through text or video chat.
OmeTV is a video chat service that lets you communicate with strangers assigned randomly from across the world.
Qooh.me is a social media service that allows people to anonymously ask questions about users.
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion site where you can share stories, links, images and videos, send messages and group chat.
RuneScape (or RuneScape 3) is an online fantasy/adventure role-playing game set in a virtual medieval realm.
Second Life is a 3D virtual world created by its users who make their own avatars and are able to interact with other avatars, places and objects.
Sendit is a Q&A app that lets you ask and answer questions with your friends on Snapchat.
Tellonym is an anonymous mobile messaging and social networking app. It allows you to send messages or ‘tells’, to strangers without revealing your identity.
WhatsApp is a free messaging, voice and video calling app, owned by Meta, that uses end-to-end encryption.
Whisper is an anonymous messaging app owned by MediaLab.AI.