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Calculator%
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- Looks like a calculator, but don’t be fooled, this and other “calculators” like it are apps used to hide pictures.
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- To access the secret photos in this app you need to type “.” (period) then the 4 digit code setup by the user and another “.” (period”.
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- There is also a paid version of this app with additional features.
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Wishbone
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- Wishbone is an app marketed as a way to compare any two things against each other.
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- In the cases of cyberbullying this app is used to compared one person to another.
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- The idea of these shoes or these shoes with this dress changes dramatically when a user instead asks who is uglier between two classmates.
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After School
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- Marketed as a “Funny anonymous school news for confessions & complements”.
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- After downloading app the first thing your teen does is specify their school. The app uses their contacts or school ID to verify them.
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- Once verified they begin posting anonymously. Cyberbullying and gossip are what the app considers “news”.
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Yellow renamed Yubo
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- Any app that is a geo-locator is just going to be bad news for your kids.
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- Yellow / Yubo has been called “Tinder for teens”. Swipe right to connect, swipe left to move on.
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- The images included have been described as “watching an MTV beach party from the 1990s”.
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- This app has been used for bullying by users creating fake profiles using real classmates names.
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Ask.fm
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- This app has been linked to some of the most vicious Cyberbullying cases.
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- A quick Google search will give you plenty of examples:
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- “Do you try and look ugly…”
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- Being anonymous is allowed in the app, although there are often abbreviations used to identify others from your same school.
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Here you see a child giving away where they live to some unknown person. How much information are you comfortable with your child giving to strangers?
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Snapchat
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- Snapchat is a social platform originally developed by two college students who wanted another way to sext.
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- Do you need another reason to keep your teens and tweens off of Snapchat?
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- If you do then there’s now “Cosmo After Dark” described by Snapchat as “an X-rated weekly edition that goes live every Friday at 6 p.m. and is exclusively dedicated to all things hot and horny”.
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