The eSafety Guide

Among Us is a cartoon-like action strategy game that can be downloaded for free on PCs or through app stores.

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.

Threads is a microblogging platform developed by Meta and available through Instagram that lets you share posts of 500 characters, including links, images and videos.

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.

Facebook is a social media service, which lets you create a page about yourself, an organisation or group.

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.

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

Adobe Firefly is an artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-image generator available online or within software such as Adobe Express, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

airG is a social chat and dating service where you can meet new people in your area, share updates and play games.

Alibi Security offer a range of video surveillance technologies. Brands include Alibi Witness, Alibi Vigilant, Alibi Cloud VS and HDVision.

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.

Anthem is an online multiplayer action role-playing video game published by Electronic Arts (EA).

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.

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

Be There App is an app that helps you support someone experiencing domestic violence or an unhealthy, toxic or abusive relationship.

BeReal is a photo sharing app that prompts you to share an unfiltered photo of yourself and your immediate surroundings once a day.

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

Bing provides a variety of search services, including images, videos, maps, news and an AI chatbot.

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

Blogger is an online publishing platform.

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.

Character.AI is an artificial intelligence chatbot that allows you to interact with digital characters

ChatGPT and GPT-4 are artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots or language models built by OpenAI, which allow people to interact in a conversational way.

Chatruletka is an anonymous online video chat platform.

Christian Mingle is a dating website and app for people looking for a relationship centred on the Christian faith.