Many parents may have often wondered what our children are talking about on the internet, in chat rooms, on MSN, or even when sending text messages.
If you come across terms such as AFK or ASL, or even BMA or POS you may be wondering what on earth they are talking about. Is it safe, are they covering something up, or is it all harmless chat, coded just to keep parents out of the loop – keepin it cool so to speak. So without confronting them F2F (face to face) we thought it my be a useful resource to put together a list of the known abbreviations, many may be new to you, some may shock and others, well, they came right out of the blue to even us.
All of this information is available online if you can find the time to search for it, so we decided to trawl the web for you, speak to the kids and get the low down on what they are talking about.
Currently we’ve compiled a list of over 800 abbreviations so it’s quite comprehensive!
BTW or should we say By the way, we are parents too, and even though we are industry professional even we get caught out.
This new micro service from WN6 Creative does take a bit of time to compile but we’re sure it will provide many parents with an inside edge on chat speak, abbreviations and the like.
The page is free to access but as the information is valuable and we think worth a small contribution we asking for a small discretionary donation, payable via credit card or Pay Pal.
To make the a donation please click the donate button below -
To access the page click here and be enlighted!
Please note some of the language used (although we have tried to sanitise it) can be a little, shall we say choice!
If you are a parent and would like to ask us any question, add to the list or even ask advice about computing, the internet and associated parental controls please get in touch we are always happy to help – a donation would be great if you do want us to help though!
