electronic devices abusive or humiliating content about what has been happening Another free app where people can rate your photo anonymously, and leave comments on your appearance. Popular free app which allows users to post anonymous rumours about people via voice messages, texts and captioned photographs. Another anonymous free app which promotes sharing “secrets of friends”. Includes a feature where you can arrange “secret meet-ups” via the app. A free messaging app which allows you to filter what can be seen by anyone accessing your phone, allowing young people to hide messages from parents. Extremely popular app which allows users to send messages and pictures which disappear within seconds, leaving no trace. You can also post longer “stories” which disappear after 24 hours.
■ DESPAIR: Children are being targeted anonymously to you for help important and they make you who you are Free app that has moved to fill the gap left by the now defunct Sarahah and Sayat.me. It “allows you to receive anonymous messages”. Actively encourages young users to “talk to strangers” while hiding behind any “nickname” they wish. Allows users to compare photos of young people against each other side-by-side in “battles”. Targets are rated on categories such as looks. Question and answer app which has been linked to a number of high-profile teen deaths. Was criticised by campaigners for promoting the most “severe forms of cyber bullying”. Looks exactly like a phone’s in-built calculator app, but when you type in a passcode it becomes a secret “vault” where photos, videos, notes, files and contacts can be hidden from parents. Police say children are creating fake accounts – so-called “finstas” – to hide content from parents. Instagram also has a messaging function.