The eSafety Guide

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.

Seesaw is an online remote learning and communication platform designed for teachers, students and parents.

Sendit is a Q&A app that lets you ask and answer questions with your friends on Snapchat.

Signal is an encrypted private messaging app owned by the Signal Foundation. You can send messages, make audio and video calls, send voice notes, images and videos to your contacts which are secure, untracked and free.

Silver Singles is a dating website and app for people aged 50+.

Siri is Apple’s personal digital assistant, which is integrated into various Apple devices including iPhone, iPad and HomePod.

Skout is a location-based social network and dating app that connects people by location or personal preferences

Skype is an audio and video calling app that allows you to video chat, instant message and make voice calls with other people, anywhere in the world, in real time.

Sora is a text-to-video artificial intelligence generator being developed and tested by OpenAI. It has not yet been released to the public.

Spotafriend is an app for teenagers to connect and become friends with other teenagers in their local area.

Squirt is a dating platform, predominantly for gay and bisexual men, that is accessed through a website optimised for both mobile and desktop use.

Steam is a gaming platform that allows you to download, purchase, and play game titles, and to set up a profile to communicate via messaging, chat and voice.

Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent writers, journalists and content creators.

Subway Surfers is a single player mobile gaming app and website. The aim of the game is to outrun a train inspector while dodging oncoming trains, barriers and other objects.

Sugarbook is an online platform for people to form relationships based on mutually agreed benefits.

SweetMeet is a location-based online dating and social media service that is suitable for different types of relationships, from friendship to casual dating and long-term romantic partnerships.

Taimi is a dating platform, predominantly for gay and bisexual men, that is accessed through a website optimised for both mobile and desktop use.

Tango is an interactive video broadcasting, messaging and social networking platform which allows you to watch and follow streamers, broadcast videos and connect to people nearby using geo location technology.

Tastebuds is a dating and social networking website for music lovers to connect with people who have similar musical tastes.

Telegram is a secure messaging and audio calling cloud-based app that allows you to send messages, photos, videos and files of any type to your contacts for free.

Tellonym is an anonymous mobile messaging and social networking app. It allows you to send messages or ‘tells’, to strangers without revealing your identity.

Ten Ten is a social media service that turns your phone into a walkie-talkie so you can communicate by holding down a button.

The League is a private dating and social networking app targeted at professionals looking for serious relationships.

Tinder is a location-based dating app. You can 'like' another user by swiping right or 'pass' by swiping left on them. If you and another user match, you can start chatting.

Truth Social is a social media service owned by Trump Media & Technology Group.

Tumblr is a microblogging platform for users to share their artwork, writing, photos, audio and videos with a worldwide audience.

Twitch is an online streaming platform and social network where you can watch or broadcast live streams and pre-recorded videos, and chat with other users

Umax is a lifestyle that scans your face and scores different facial features according to its own parameters of attractiveness and masculinity.

Valorant is an online multiplayer computer game. It is a first-person shooter game, consisting of two teams of five, where one team attacks and the other defends.

Vimeo is an online video hosting and sharing site where you can view and post videos, leave comments and follow other users.

Wattpad is a social media service where writers and readers can share stories, comment on stories, add profile comments and send and receive private messages to one another.

Cisco WebEx is an audio and video web conferencing platform.

WeChat is a Chinese platform that is used world-wide. It combines social media posting, chat, messaging, video/voice and payment services in the one platform.

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.

Wickr Inc. produces three secure messaging and collaboration apps called Wickr Me, Wickr Pro and Wickr Enterprise.