With the popularity of smart phones rising, phone applications have become a source of constant entertainment through social media, games and photo editing. Teenagers use many of the same apps which continue to grow.
A photo-sharing application, Instagram enables users to take pictures, add filters and tag friends.
Facebook is a popular social network that allows individuals worldwide to connect and communicate through messages, photographs and updates.
This app is a type of blogging service in which users send and receive messages with 140 characters or less.
Vine
Vine is an upcoming video-sharing application that allows users to create short, looping videos.
Tumblr
Tumblr allows users to post and repost multimedia to a personal blog. Appearing on the “dashboard,” other users’ posts can be seen.
Snapchat
Friends can share real-time photos with each other for a time frame of up to 10 seconds.
Pixlr-o-matic
A photo editing app, Pixlr-o-matic offers multiple combinations to change the appearance of a picture.
Pandora
Pandora Radio is an automated personalized radio that creates a custom station for listeners based on similar music of the selected artist, song or genre.
Candy Crush
An iPhone video game, Candy Crush challenges players to align sets of three identical candies, after which they disappear. The level’s objectives must be completed in a certain number of moves or in a particular period of time before moving on.
Four pics One word
Four pics One word is a puzzle game in which players are given four pictures and must guess what word they have in common.