What are you taking about?

So have you ever looked over your kids shoulder and saw some thing like this? POS, BFN, BBS. Well with the increase use of text messaging and IM (instant messaging) services a new abbreviated language has evolved. Today I’m going to give you the Rosetta stone for deciphering these messages. Most of the time the answer is pretty simple, each letter represents a word, such as BBS is short for “be back soon”. Some are even easier such as L8R, or deciphered as “later”. So which ones are important for parents to recognize? Well theses are the one I think are important to know off the top of your head.

POS – Parent over the shoulder, meaning I can’t take openly right now because my parents are around.

PRW – Parent (people) are watching, same as above.

ASL or A/S/L – Age / Sex / Location, someone is asking for to much information about your kid.

PM – Private message, lets talk in a more secure chat room, with out other around.

F2T – Free to talk, can you talk openly, refer back to number one.

FYEO – For your eyes only, don’t let anyone see this is private stuff.

It’s a scary world out there and as parents we need to be able to know what are kids are talking about. Most of the time the stuff they talk about is harmless kid stuff, or stuff that they just don’t want mom and dad to know about not because it’s bad.

Here is a list with a lot more of these abbreviations http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp.