I thought you would be interested in where your teen/college student is “visiting” while on the internet.

Top 10 Websites Among US College Students, by Gender, February 2008 (% of respondents)

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Teen Texting Dictionary

by admin on April 23, 2010

BlackBerry 8800 (Cingular Version

Image via Wikipedia

I thought you may want a good reference for texting terms.  Here’s my updated list:

AITR = Adult In The Room

P911 = Parent Emergency

PAW = Parents Are Watching

PIR = Parent In Room

POS = Parent Over Shoulder

PLOS = Parents Looking Over shoulder

PRW = Parents Are Watching

MOS = Mom Over Shoulder

MIRL = Meet In Real Life (this is only used in chat rooms, hopefully your kids don’t use)

S2R = Send To Receive (pictures)

LMIRL = (Lets) Meet In Real Life (ditto…chat room use)

CD9 = Code 9 – (means parents are around)

E or X = Ecstasy (the drug)

ASL(R P) = Age Sex Location (Race / Picture)

TDTM = Talk Dirty To Me (Yikes!  that would be sexting wouldn’t it?) [click to continue…]

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Cyber-bullying

April 21, 2010 Internet Use

It’s Topic Day
My friends at “OnTeensToday” are dedicating today’s topic to  Cyber-bullying.  There are lots of articles and links provided.  My post on “Sexting” will be featured.
One of the important points I un-covered in my research about cyber-bullying is, (this may be no surprise to you) most people who bully online…get bullied themselves.  It’s the [...]

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