“If you want to know what your kids are texting about, sometimes reading the message is not enough … teens often use abbreviations to hide the meaning of their conversations – and there are a lot of new ones you might not know about.” …
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/12/07/parents-advised-to-be-on-watch-for-teens-texting-codes/
These stories have been floating around since I got my first text-enabled phone as a teen a decade ago. And just like then, I’d bet my last dollar that none of these are actually used by teens. They’re just not things teens said then and they’re not things teens say now.
And if, on the VERY long shot these are actually used by any teen, as soon as parents figure out what it is, they’ll use something else.
But all in all, I call BS.
This has been going on long before texting…it goes back when kids were emailing.
Wait, I thought sweeps were in November?
I just watched the video associated with the article.
It’s more lolz-worthy than the article itself.
The sad thing is that sexting and peer pressure for nudes via technology is actually a problem among some young people. But stories like this make a joke out of it because they are clearly just pulled out of thin air and is beyond ridiculous.
Kids these days…
As romani says, pressure to provide nude photos in particular is a real problem. But this article is like addressing opioid addiction through Reefer Madness.