It can also integrate with your phone’s address book, Gmail, and WhatsApp accounts and find your friends who have OoVoo. Oovoo can be linked to a user’s Facebook and shared with those friends. MORE: Child's play: The best electric toy cars for Christmas 2015 The app will ask for a date of birth and gender as well. Then you’ll write your name, which is the title of your account. When signing up you’ll create a username, which cannot be changed later. It has been reported that children as young as nine have been contacted through the app. While Oovoo is meant for those aged 13 and above, on the Apple App Store it is listed as for ages 4+. MORE: Parents claim their children's hair is being cut off by popular Christmas toy It also says it has more women – at 53% – than men using the app. It promotes itself as “being cool”, with 65% of its users under the age of 25. Oovoo says it has 100m users and is the number one video chatting app in the world. However, the company said it worries this could become a privacy issue. The plan is to use this in business and politics, especially during the 2016 US presidential election. In March, OoVoo introduced a new feature which reads facial emotions. MORE: Breast is best for Wales' newborns says academic in warning over country's low breastfeeding rates The group chatting can host as many as 12 users at once from anywhere in the world and it is used in 130 countries and its website boasts nearly 100,000 users join every day. It is free to use and download and allows for a host of different functions including one-on-one video chatting, group video chatting, texting, picture messaging, screen sharing, voice calling and more. Oovoo is a US-based video and messaging app. While this app is one of the coolest on the market, like any video chatting service, it has its dangers when underage kids are online. More than 100m users have Oovoo and it works on every kind of device including Android smartphones, Apple products, tablets, Windows and PCs. The app was released in 2007 but has recently begun growing around the world and especially in the UK. You might not have heard of OoVoo, the world’s largest free video and messaging app, but your kids probably have.
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