Teenagers are moving away from ‘traditional’ social
networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in favour of mobile messaging apps
like WhatsApp and WeChat.
Habbo Hotel - Habbo Hotel is an online community for players 13 years or older where you create your very own Habbo character and design hotel rooms. You'll also meet new friends, chat, organize parties, look after virtual pets, create and play games and complete quests. Lots of activities in the hotel will earn you badges too. Habbo is all about having fun with friends in a safe and exciting environment.
Joining Habbo is free. You can visit all hotel rooms, complete quests and chat with your friends without ever having to pay. We do offer 'extras', which you can buy with Habbo Credits and those include furniture, VIP membership and other items for your Habbo home. Provided you have the authorization of your parents and bill payer, you have different options of buying Habbo credits.
Habbo is monitored 24 hours, 7 days a week by professional moderators. You can clearly identify them by the Habbo Staff symbol next to their name. If you need help from moderators you can contact them by clicking the "Help" button in the top right corner of the screen. Moderators can help you out by kicking, muting or even banning a misbehaving user from the hotel. You can do a lot to make sure you stay safe on Habbo and generally in the internet.
Instagram - Over 200 million users love Instagram! It's a simple way to capture and share the world's moments on your Windows Phone, iPhone,IPad or Android. Customize your photos with one of several gorgeous and custom built filter effects. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family. Share your photos in a simple photo stream with friends to see - and follow your friends' photos with the click of a single button.
Features
LittleMonsters - On December 1, 2010, two fans decided to create a fan site about Lady Gaga. Without any knowledge of web design and development, they launched the site, hosted on a free host where your biggest dream, were gradually publishing his first news about this peculiar and flamboyant singer.
Tumblr - Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc.Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.
The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.
Description:
• Post anything, from anywhere.
• Share photos, gifs, video, music, quotes, chats, links, and text. Find and follow the things you love, and get all your latest news from your dashboard.
• Bonus: Add a 'create a post' widget to your home screen.
• Advanced controls: Save drafts, queue posts, customize tweets, and more!
• Messages: View and reply to messages.
• Multiple blogs: Seamlessly manage all of your blogs.
Snapchat - Experience a totally new way to share today. Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll view it, laugh, and then the snap disappears from the screen - unless they take a screenshot! If you want to share a Snap with all of your friends, add it to your Snapchat Story, a living narrative where each Snap lives for 24 hours until it disappears, making room for the new. The images might be a little grainy, and you may not look your best, but that's the point. It's about the moment, a connection between friends in the present, and not just a pretty picture.
Vine - Vine is like Instagram for videos. Users can create short and beautiful looping videos that can be instantly shared, perfect for the teen demographic that seems more interested in applications that support creating visual content without spending too much time.
Habbo Hotel - Habbo Hotel is an online community for players 13 years or older where you create your very own Habbo character and design hotel rooms. You'll also meet new friends, chat, organize parties, look after virtual pets, create and play games and complete quests. Lots of activities in the hotel will earn you badges too. Habbo is all about having fun with friends in a safe and exciting environment.
Joining Habbo is free. You can visit all hotel rooms, complete quests and chat with your friends without ever having to pay. We do offer 'extras', which you can buy with Habbo Credits and those include furniture, VIP membership and other items for your Habbo home. Provided you have the authorization of your parents and bill payer, you have different options of buying Habbo credits.
Habbo is monitored 24 hours, 7 days a week by professional moderators. You can clearly identify them by the Habbo Staff symbol next to their name. If you need help from moderators you can contact them by clicking the "Help" button in the top right corner of the screen. Moderators can help you out by kicking, muting or even banning a misbehaving user from the hotel. You can do a lot to make sure you stay safe on Habbo and generally in the internet.
Instagram - Over 200 million users love Instagram! It's a simple way to capture and share the world's moments on your Windows Phone, iPhone,IPad or Android. Customize your photos with one of several gorgeous and custom built filter effects. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family. Share your photos in a simple photo stream with friends to see - and follow your friends' photos with the click of a single button.
Features
- • Linear and Radial Tilt-Shift blur effects for extra depth of field
- • Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare
- • Unlimited uploads
- • Send photos and videos directly to friends
- • Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments
- • And much much more...
- Download the Instagram app for your iPhone/iPad from the App Store, your Android from Google Play Store or your Windows Phone from the Windows Phone Store.
- Once the app is installed, tap to open it.
- Tap Register with Email to sign up with your email address or Register with Facebook to sign up with your Facebook account.
- If you register with email, create a username and password, fill out your profile info and then tap Done.
- If you register with Facebook, you'll be prompted to sign into your Facebook account if you're currently logged out.
LittleMonsters - On December 1, 2010, two fans decided to create a fan site about Lady Gaga. Without any knowledge of web design and development, they launched the site, hosted on a free host where your biggest dream, were gradually publishing his first news about this peculiar and flamboyant singer.
Tumblr - Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc.Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.
The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.
Description:
• Post anything, from anywhere.
• Share photos, gifs, video, music, quotes, chats, links, and text. Find and follow the things you love, and get all your latest news from your dashboard.
• Bonus: Add a 'create a post' widget to your home screen.
• Advanced controls: Save drafts, queue posts, customize tweets, and more!
• Messages: View and reply to messages.
• Multiple blogs: Seamlessly manage all of your blogs.
Snapchat - Experience a totally new way to share today. Snap a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend (or maybe a few). They'll view it, laugh, and then the snap disappears from the screen - unless they take a screenshot! If you want to share a Snap with all of your friends, add it to your Snapchat Story, a living narrative where each Snap lives for 24 hours until it disappears, making room for the new. The images might be a little grainy, and you may not look your best, but that's the point. It's about the moment, a connection between friends in the present, and not just a pretty picture.
Vine - Vine is like Instagram for videos. Users can create short and beautiful looping videos that can be instantly shared, perfect for the teen demographic that seems more interested in applications that support creating visual content without spending too much time.
Pheed - Pheed makes it is easy and fast to share VOICE-NOTES, MUSIC, PHOTOS, VIDEOS and TEXT.Pheed is a free social multimedia platform, available on mobile devices via the App Store, Google Play, and via the web.
A pheed is any kind of content you share on your channel. There are video pheeds, audio pheeds, text pheeds, live event pheeds.Pheed is open to anyone who is 13 years old or older. It’s free to join and easy to use.
WhatsApp - Half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users.Voice Messaging is a very powerful way of communicating with your friends and family. iPhone and Android devices have perfectly working Voice Messages functionality, also BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Phone users can enjoy the same rich and powerful Voice Messaging experience.
WeChat - Available for all kinds of platforms; enjoy group chat; support voice,photo,video and text messages.Chat with friends in a Live Chat session (available in the latest versions of WeChat for iOS and Android). Invite your friends to a WeChat group chat via QR code (available in the latest versions of WeChat for iOS and Android).Video Call is available on WeChat versions 4.2 and later, allowing you to talk to your friends face to face. Look Around to find people using WeChat with Look Around enabled nearby.
KakaoTalk - With KakaoTalk, KakaoStory and more, you can stay close and connected around the world. Equipped with a strong user base and network capacity, KakaoTalk is leading the way in innovating how people communicate today and have successfully evolved into a mobile social platform. The success in the arena of digital content, business marketing, commerce and game platform optimized for mobile devices.
ooVoo Video Chat - ooVoo is a FREE video chat and instant messaging app for desktop, mobile, tablets and Facebook . ooVoo lets you chat with up to 12 people for FREE anytime.Send cool video messages, record and upload to YouTube, Instant Messaging.
With ooVoo's cloud-based servers, you can make the highest quality video calls from any device. Two is company, but twelve is a party. With ooVoo, you can add up to twelve people to a FREE group video call. Get all of your friends together on the same call in a group video chat. Watch TV, gossip, do homework, or go shopping - all together.
Video chat, voice call and text friends on iPhone, iPad, and Android phones & tablets in a 4-way display with HD video quality on WiFi, 3G, 4G LTE, or WiMAX.
Tango - Tango is a free mobile messaging app that lets you connect with friends and family, get
social, and have fun. Tango is messaging and more! Free calls can be made by anyone who has downloaded Tango to their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android phone or tablet. Whether you are out and about, at home, or on the road, use Tango to make all of your calls more fun.
Tango gives you the highest quality video & phone calls, texts, photo & video sharing, games and more for FREE! It’s the all-in-one social networking app that finally combines every way you want to interact with friends & family. Join hundreds of millions of people around the world & Tango today!
The trend, particularly with the younger demographic, seems to support more specific social networks — statuses on Twitter, photos on Instagram, pin boards on Pinterest, live stream on Pheed and short videos on Vine.
A pheed is any kind of content you share on your channel. There are video pheeds, audio pheeds, text pheeds, live event pheeds.Pheed is open to anyone who is 13 years old or older. It’s free to join and easy to use.
WhatsApp - Half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users.Voice Messaging is a very powerful way of communicating with your friends and family. iPhone and Android devices have perfectly working Voice Messages functionality, also BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Phone users can enjoy the same rich and powerful Voice Messaging experience.
WeChat - Available for all kinds of platforms; enjoy group chat; support voice,photo,video and text messages.Chat with friends in a Live Chat session (available in the latest versions of WeChat for iOS and Android). Invite your friends to a WeChat group chat via QR code (available in the latest versions of WeChat for iOS and Android).Video Call is available on WeChat versions 4.2 and later, allowing you to talk to your friends face to face. Look Around to find people using WeChat with Look Around enabled nearby.
KakaoTalk - With KakaoTalk, KakaoStory and more, you can stay close and connected around the world. Equipped with a strong user base and network capacity, KakaoTalk is leading the way in innovating how people communicate today and have successfully evolved into a mobile social platform. The success in the arena of digital content, business marketing, commerce and game platform optimized for mobile devices.
ooVoo Video Chat - ooVoo is a FREE video chat and instant messaging app for desktop, mobile, tablets and Facebook . ooVoo lets you chat with up to 12 people for FREE anytime.Send cool video messages, record and upload to YouTube, Instant Messaging.
With ooVoo's cloud-based servers, you can make the highest quality video calls from any device. Two is company, but twelve is a party. With ooVoo, you can add up to twelve people to a FREE group video call. Get all of your friends together on the same call in a group video chat. Watch TV, gossip, do homework, or go shopping - all together.
Video chat, voice call and text friends on iPhone, iPad, and Android phones & tablets in a 4-way display with HD video quality on WiFi, 3G, 4G LTE, or WiMAX.
Tango - Tango is a free mobile messaging app that lets you connect with friends and family, get
social, and have fun. Tango is messaging and more! Free calls can be made by anyone who has downloaded Tango to their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android phone or tablet. Whether you are out and about, at home, or on the road, use Tango to make all of your calls more fun.
Tango gives you the highest quality video & phone calls, texts, photo & video sharing, games and more for FREE! It’s the all-in-one social networking app that finally combines every way you want to interact with friends & family. Join hundreds of millions of people around the world & Tango today!
The trend, particularly with the younger demographic, seems to support more specific social networks — statuses on Twitter, photos on Instagram, pin boards on Pinterest, live stream on Pheed and short videos on Vine.