subject: Bringing Parents Up To Date With Kids Texting Codes [print this page] As a parent, you feel that you're one of the fortunate ones and that your kids tell you everything. Even in a family where communication is motivated you will almost certainly realize that there are a few things that your teens aren't telling you. Teenagers talk to their friends and peers considerably more than they talk to their parents and this is common but in the existing times things aren't as simple as they used to be and a lot of parents are left wondering what all the abbreviations in those text messages, e-mails, and online chats really mean.
Firstly POS is you. This means Parent over Shoulder and if they type this it's for the purpose of letting everyone know not to say anything telling given that they are being analyzed. This is an important one because most parents think that they will be able to see what their kids are up to just by looking. Another trick for not making it possible for you to see what they are up to is by switching windows. Many will even utilize this trick at work if doing things of a personal nature when the boss walks by. They may perhaps swiftly switch to a page which contains research so that you think that they are doing what they are supposed to be when actually they are occupied in an online chat session with their friends.
LOL is one of the most popular text options and in lower or upper case it means the same thing, laugh out loud, there are other versions of this that involving laughing in varying degrees such as LMAO or LMAOROTF however the specific details of these letters isn't important except to say that they have to do with thinking something is comical and not anything really bad. Some teenagers even utilize haha as way to display laughter or to show that something is amusing.
Some teens utilize abbreviations for everything and this can become a little confusing as they will abbreviate local places and sometimes even other teens cant follow the chatter. Around here one of the large ones has been VBS standing for Vacation Bible School and all school names are usually abbreviated as well. OMG is a comment of surprise and generally stands for Oh My Goodness and of course BF and GF is boyfriend and girlfriend but BF or BFF usually stand for Best Friend or Best Friend Forever.
If you are a parent who does not understand these way in which teens text and e-mail then it will be helpful to locate a website which explains these things in further detail to you. It's vital to realize that there are limited characters allowed per message and therefore most items are typed the way they sound and a lot of vowels are dropped because of this. So if u wnt to no wat ur kids r sayin then u need 2 b informed.
