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Today’s episode is about Burnbook. Burnbook falls into the texting or messenger app category, and resembles/ is CLEARLY modeled after the Burn Book made famous in the movie, Mean Girls, which was designed to spread rumors, stories and gossip to and about other students in the film’s North Shore High School. ...Doesn't that sound fetch?!  

This week’s episode is about Houseparty. Houseparty is a rebooted version of a defunct, livestreaming app, called Meerkat.  Rebooted in 2016, Houseparty is designed to let you host video calls with friends (and friends of friends), much like Google Hangouts.

This week’s episode is about Discord. Discord falls into the texting or messenger app category. Sometimes described as Skype for gaming, Discord is an app (and site) that allows gamers to connect via text, voice, and video (typically) while gaming.    

This week’s episode is about IMVU a 3-D chat world site and app. IMVU falls into the texting or messenger app category, and stands for (Instant Messaging Virtual Universe) – an online world in which users create custom avatars and use them to chat with strangers in random chats or 3D chat rooms.

This week's episode is about Ask.Fm. Ask.fm falls into the texting or messenger app category, and is rated 17+ in app stores. It is a social networking website set up in an anonymous question/ answer format, allowing users to take questions from, give answers to and ask questions about others, anonymously.  

This week’s episode is about GroupMe. GroupMe falls into the texting or messenger app category. It is a messaging app that is designed to allow you to share – wait for it…Group Messages; a trend that has become more and commonplace with younger and younger groups of kids.

This week’s episode is about TikTok – the app formerly known as Musical.ly. TikTok falls into the live-streaming / connection motivated app category. Musical.ly is a fun, short-form, video-sharing, social app in which kids (mostly) make cute (mostly) music videos. The users (called Musers) record themselves dancing and singing to famous songs and build up a following among friends by sharing their karaoke-like posts publicly.  

This week’s episode is about Snapchat. Snapchat falls into the texting or messenger app and self-destructing/ secret-based app categories. Snapchat is the app that allows users to send photos, videos or messages that disappear after a set time limit. Thousands of teenagers have been lured into a false sense of security around the Snapchat app—the wildly popular, insta-texting app that’s marketed directly to teens.

Today’s episode is about Facebook Facebook falls into the media sharing/ content curation and the livestreaming / connection motivated app categories. Facebook is a social networking site in which users have a personal profile called a Timeline – an easily managed mini version of a webpage.