Tribe - Video Messaging - Faster than texting, easier than live video and phone calls

With parental supervision and used by older teens, there's some potential here to share fun videos with small groups, but users need to be well-versed in the risks. Though the app is pretty limited unless your friends are on it, it's a neat way to think about messaging without text or emojis. It's part Snapchat, part Vine, part walkie-talkie, and its bright colors and dead-simple one-finger recording features make it a pleasure to use. However, video sharing is a different animal from text messaging, so parents may want to talk to teens about how it's easier to send unintended information via video than in a crafted text message, especially since it's so easy to send a video with this app: There are only a few seconds to delete the video and start over before it's automatically sent, and it's very possible to send a video to the wrong person. Also, the automatic location-sharing is a potential concern if teens are sharing videos with contacts they don't know especially well. In terms of functionality, its simplicity is a blessing and a curse, as more options around creating, editing, sharing, and deleting videos would help with the potential "uh-oh" factor.