Resources
- Screen Time and Wellbeing
- After School
- Animal Jam
- Ask.fm
- Avakin Life
- Bumble
- Challenges
- Discord
- Dubsmash
- Facebook Messenger
- Flipagram
- Fortnite: Battle Royale
- Gab
- Granny
- Grindr
- GroupMe
- Guns.io
- Hot or Not
- House Party
- Kahoot
- Kik
- Kiwi
- lipsi
- live.ly
- Lyft
- Mappen
- Minecraft
- Musical.ly
- Oovoo
- Periscope
- Pokemon Go
- PUBG Mobile
- Roblox
- Sarahah
- Smart GEN Society
- Snapcash
- Snapchat
- tbh
- Tik Tok
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- Tumblr
- Uber
- Vault
- Viber
- Vine
- VSCO
- Webkinz
- Whisper
Kik 18+
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Privacy
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to create a Kik account or use their services.
Collects name, phone number, address book contacts from user's device.
Tracks location
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Safety
False sense of security based upon "Anonymous" cloak
Can be held liable for postingsFalse sense of security based upon meeting people in person
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Content
What Kik says, "Stay in touch with all of your friends on Kik, no matter who you are or what device you're using. Chat one-on-one, with your whole group, or with a bot!"
What SGS says, "Um, No. Need more convincing? Google Kik murders."
Messaging App that is commonly used for dangerous interactions
Opportunity for exploitation, pornography, sexualization, objectification