20 Internet Acronyms All Parents Should Know

ohhh, sick burn. seeing as my teenage years were just over 5 years ago, i guess i'm really really getting old.

POS
PIR
P911
PAW
PAL
ASL
MorF
SorG
LMIRL
KPC
TD2M
IWSN
NIFOC
GYPO <-- best one in the list.
ADR
WYCM
KFU
MOOS
MOSS
NALOPKT

Quite a few of these are undefined, and most of the rest have less than 50 votes.

if you're already watching what your kids are saying, just take note of anything that confuses you and check it out on urban dictionary.

And kudos on trying to make a 22 yearold feel old. i joke about it sometimes, but to be honest it'll take quite a few more years until that happens.

 

As I've stated in the past. My home PC stays password locked at all times. My kids earn the right to get on for limited amounts of time. I also require all myspace passwords, etc. so I check on what they are saying, and more so what some of their "so" called friends are saying. It's amazing what some 14 yo girls and boys are saying. One of my daughters friends was saying a lot of vulgar terms, so after I read that and she showed up at my house I said you know I was considering printing that stuff off and showing to your Mom, but I'll give you this time as a warning, but next time I will. If I go on my daughters and a boy is being disrespectful he is deleted and blocked from contacting her any longer.

Everyone needs to be aware of what their children are doing online, etc. I'm amazed at how idiot some of my childs friends parents are when it comes to this stuff. My daughter has two friends who's parents got them laptops and lets them keep it in their rooms and doesn't monitor them at all...and they'll be the first one on the damn news when their kids run off with a pedophile from myspace. Jessh, Grow up and take responsibility for your lack of parenting. My daughter asked for a laptop at Christmas, I laughed and said when you go to college I'll get you one, but right now my house, my rules.:lol:

 

Nev, honestly - you are older than you think. I know it is hard to accept. You're one us, buddy! :lol:

Kids are growing up way too fast nowadays, and some of these (or even most of these) may not be common - but at least it got some discussion going and I agree with you - if parents see something confusing they should look it up - esp if there are alot of P's (IMO - that means your kids are talking about their parents or the po-po *snort) one should start sleuthing.

 

shhhh!! don't say things like that. <.< >.>

edit: also the similarity to that character is scary. except i'm not nearly as large, and i'm never going bald. but... as a caricature... bah. i'm gonna go shave. =(