6 Apps Kids Are Using That Parents Need to Know About ^Featured

Wishbone

• Wishbone is an app marketed as a way to compare any two things against each other.

• In the cases of cyberbullying this app is used to compared one person to another.

• The idea of these shoes or these shoes with this dress changes dramatically when a user instead asks who is uglier between two classmates.

After School

• Marketed as a "Funny anonymous school news for confessions & complements".

• After downloading app the first thing your teen does is specify their school. The app uses their contacts or school ID to verify them.

• Once verified they begin posting anonymously. Cyberbullying and gossip are what the app considers "news". 

Yellow renamed Yubo

• Any app that is a geo-locator is just going to be bad news for your kids.

• Yellow / Yubo has been called "Tinder for teens". Swipe right to connect, swipe left to move on.

• The images included have been described as "watching an MTV beach party from the 1990s".

• This app has been used for bullying by users creating fake profiles using real classmates names.

Ask.fm

• This app has been linked to some of the most vicious Cyberbullying cases.

• A quick Google search will give you plenty of examples:

• "go cut ur self n die"

• "Do you try and look ugly..."

• Being anonymous is allowed in the app, although there are often abbreviations used to identify others from your same school.

Snapchat

• Snapchat is a social platform originally developed by two college students who wanted another way to sext.

• Do you need another reason to keep your teens and tweens off of Snapchat?

• 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".