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
- Tinder
- Tumblr
- Uber
- Vault
- Viber
- Vine
- VSCO
- Webkinz
- Whisper
WhatsApp 15+
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Privacy
Owned by Facebook and shares your payment information with their parent company.
Does not keep conversations on WhatsApp servers.
Follows COPPA Laws. You must be at least 13 years old to use WhatsApp.
Tracks location
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Safety
False sense of security based upon "Anonymous" cloak
Offers live video streaming to virtual strangers
Allows direct messaging
Unable to be monitored
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Content
What WhatsApp say, "WhatsApp Messenger is a FREE messaging app available for iPhone and other smartphones."
What SGS Says, "While this is a good services for your college age teen studying abroad (WhatsApp offers free international calling and calling over wifi), if you are concerned your teen trying to make calls without you knowing - we would avoid this app."
Unmonitored live video streaming
Opportunity for exploitation, pornography, sexualization, objectification