This document provides information about several social media and messaging applications: - WhatsApp is an internet messenger that allows free messaging, videos, and photos between contacts linked from a user's phone or Facebook. - Kik is similar to WhatsApp but was originally made for Android devices. It allows instant chat messaging without linking to Facebook by adding contacts directly. - Snapchat allows sending photos, videos and drawings with a time limit on how long recipients can view them before they are deleted from the sender and Snapchat's servers. - Instagram is a social network where users can post photos and videos to their profile and news feed and follow other users while connecting to Twitter and Facebook. Privacy settings can

1. WhatsApp
This is an internet instant
messenger.
You have to be
connected to the
internet but you can
send free
messages/videos/photos
You have a contacts list –
which links with your
phone contacts and
Facebook.
You have to
accept/decline people
and you can block
people.
IF YOUR SON/DAUGHTER HAS
THEIR MOBILE NUMBER ON
FACEBOOK OR TWITTER THEN
ANYONE CAN ADD THEM ON
WHATSAPP. THE SITES ARE
LINKED!

2. Kik
A very similar application to
whatsapp (originally
whatsapp was made for
iphones and kik all android)
It’s an instant chat
messaging service run via an
internet connection.
This is not linked with
Facebook – you have to add
contacts and have their
number. You can block
people.

3. The video is uploaded onto a site that
allows everyone/anyone to view your
‘keek’ in a similar way to youtube.
Keek is a free online service that
allows its users to upload video
status updates, which are called
"keeks". Users can post keeks to the
Keek website using a webcam or via
the Keek mobile apps Users can also
reply back with text or video
comments, known as "keekbacks",
and share content to other major
social media networks. There is also
an embed option so users can embed
their keeks into a blog or website.

4. Using the application, users can
take photos, record videos, add
text and drawings, and send them
to a controlled list of recipients.
These sent photographs and
videos are known as "Snaps".
Users set a time limit for how long
recipients can view their Snaps (as
of April 2014, the range is from 1
to 10 seconds), after which they
will be hidden from the recipient's
device and deleted from
Snapchat's servers.

5. Twitter is an online social networking and
microblogging service that enables users to
send and read short 140-character text
messages, called "tweets". Registered users
can read and post tweets, but unregistered
users can only read them……..
@RVHSTeam
#greatschool
You can make your account private which
will only allow people you accept to see
your tweets but young people tend to
want lots of followers and want to be
able to interact with everybody…….

6. Photography social network news feed.
Users ‘follow’ one another.
Can be linked to Twitter and Facebook.
# widely used – was the original purpose supposedly
Can be made secure, but your followers can see
what you’ve been ‘liking’ and who you’ve started
‘following’ and you can see what they have been
doing…………

7. Online social networking site. You can make your account private, but you do
have to keep updating security settings.
Friends of friends of friends of friends is where the problems can lie.
‘Checking in’ can be dangerous as it provides a map of where to find you!
Just as you should for any social media…………..