Boy am I glad I don't have any teenagers these days...or maybe not

Thanks to Time online: http://techland.time.com/2012/05/03/92-teen-text-terms-decoded-for-confused-parents/

"These 92 terms are among the most popular, but know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

1. 143 I love you (popularized by no less awesome a source than Mister Rogers himself)
2. 2DAY Today
3. 4EAE For ever and ever
4. ADN Any day now
5. AFAIK As far as I know
6. AFK Away from keyboard
7. ATM At the moment
8. B/C Because
9. B4 Before
10. BF / GF Boyfriend / Girlfriend
11. BFN Bye for now
12. BOL Be on later
13. BRB Be right back
14. BTW By the way
15. DM Direct message
16. DWBH Don’t worry, be happy
17. F2F or FTF Face to face
18. FB Facebook
19. FF Follow Friday (Follow Friday is a recurring topic on Twitter. Each week, users post lists of people that they think others should followusing the #FF or #FollowFriday hashtag.)
20. FTL For the loss / For the lose
21. FTW For the win
22. FWB Friends with benefits
23. FWIW For what it’s worth
24. FYEO For your eyes only
25. FYI For your information
26. GLHF Good luck, have fun
27. GR8 Great
28. HAK Hugs and kisses
29. HAND Have a nice day
30. HT or H/T Hat tip or heard through (usually referencing news or an informative link)
31. HTH Hope this helps / Happy to help
32. IANAL I am not a lawyer
33. IDK I don’t know
34. IIRC If I remember correctly
35. IKR I know, right?
36. ILY / ILU I love you
37. IMHO In my honest opinion / In my humble opinion
38. IMO In my opinion
39. IRL In real life
40. IU2U It’s up to you
41. IYKWIM If you know what I mean
42. J/K Just kidding
43. J4F Just for fun
44. JIC Just in case
45. JSYK Just so you know
46. K or KK Okay
47. LMBO Laughing my butt off
48. LMK Let me know
49. LOL Laughing out loud
50. MM Music Monday. Another recurring Twitter topic. In this case, users post a song or two that will get your week off to a better start.
51. MSM Mainstream media
52. NAGI Not a good idea
53. NM Never mind
54. NMU Not much, you?
55. NP No problem or Now playing (as in “My MP3 stream is now playing LMFAO’s Party Rock.)
56. NSFW Not safe for work. If this is attached to a link, you’re strongly advised not to check it out while in the workplace or any other venue where inappropriate content would be, well, inappropriate.
57. NSFL Not safe for life. Usually a humorous disclaimer that something formerly innocent is going to be irreparably sullied if you click the link.
58. NTS Note to self
59. OH Overheard
60. OMG Oh my God
61. ORLY Oh, really?
62. PAW Parents are watching
63. PLS or PLZ Please
64. PPL People
65. PTB Please text back
66. QQ Crying. Rather than an abbreviation, this is an emoticon, a picture created in text. The tails of the capital Q form tears, while the circles are the eyes. Saying “QQ” aloud also can mimic the “boo hoo” of someone who’s upset. Usually used sarcastically or contemptuously.
67. RAK Random act of kindness
68. RL Real life
69. ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing
70. RT Retweet. Similar to forwarding an email, Twitter lets you echo other people’s tweets for your own followers to read. In some cases, folks will ask for something they’ve said to be amplified by saying “Please RT” or “PLS RT.”
71. RUOK Are you okay? In Australia, #RUOK is a regularly trending topic, following a government initiative called RUOK Day, which raises awareness of mental health issues on social networking sites.
72. SMH Shaking my head
73. SRSLY Seriously
74. SSDD Same stuff, different day
75. SWAK Sealed with a kiss
76. SWYP So, what’s your problem?
77. TIA Thanks in advance
78. TIME Tears in my eyes
79. TMB Tweet me back
80. TMI Too much information
81. TMRW Tomorrow
82. TTYL Talk to you later
83. TY or TU Thank you
84. VSF Very sad face
85. WB Welcome back
86. WTH What the heck?
87. WTPA Where the party at?
88. WYCM Will you call me?
89. YGM You’ve got mail (to alert your texting partner that you’ve contacted them via that staid old email thing. That’s sooo 2001!)
90. YMMV Your mileage may vary
91. YW You’re welcome
92. ZOMG Oh my god (sarcastic)"

The above is just a sampling of several of the acronyms the kids use for texting, oddly enough they do make a lot of sense and some I have even used for myself.

Boy, I feel for all you parents/grandparents, out there and we would be the grandparents out there too, since that is where our age numbers roll on the upper end and since most of my friends have teenage grandkids, some older than that and a few with younger.

Any-who, we don’t and sure many a day I wish we did have.

But until they figure out how grandparents can give birth to grandchildren without being from some loony inbred background wacko people there is no manufacturing of them even if you do yearn for them on many an occasion, except when the word comes down on the newest sneakiest way to not let Mom or Dad in on things like their live, school, friends etc. then I take one heck of deep breath and say whew!

We may have been lenient parents with a lot of trust in our sons own judgment but we did always know who their friends were and where they would be going with them.

  It’s very tough today, when ours were growing up during the seventies and eighties, since they were really well grown by the 1990’s and not much worries then, but they could not do what they kids today can do with all their techno devices.

Between sexting, sending those naked photos to people and or actually performing a sexual behavior that’s all very scary I would think to any parent!

And those predators all over the Internet, yes they have been around way too long.

As much as I would really like a few of our own like those adorable kiddies you all post, I wish you wouldn’t, due to what the latest info is on posting all those PICS, people steal them and use them for not nice things.

Hubby is retired law enforcement, as you all know, and even years ago it was going on with the predators on line, but now it is way out of hand and I believe worse due to what I can glean from news reports.

Even our PICS were high jacked and posted online under my name though, I suppose in a tag and that is one of the many reasons I do not post too many PICS except the ones that no one can alter and you too should be more cautious. Weekly there is another story about young children or teens having their pics used in some way other than intended, just be aware and more careful please!

Thinking now about the text messages when done while driving is extremely dangerous, but of all the stuff out there I suppose they are the least of most parents worries, hmm?

They appear to distract so many from talking directly to people including their families they show on TV, I could be wrong since we do not have that issue here personally.

All I do know is that as a village we should if we could tell children to be careful with their choices… who am I kidding would they listen?

Perhaps.

But didn’t we all think we knew better or more or no one understood us at one time or another… I suppose the old adage the more things change the more they stay the same, and yep they do.

On that note of sure it is, and still jealous of all you grands, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Update: I found out from that IRS related number that when that additional info was mailed by us snail mail two weeks ago they feel that it takes ten days to receive it and then another six to eight weeks to process it and that they cannot confirm or deny that they received it! A BLANK PAGE! CRAZY! PS I do go daily to irs.gov to see what is going on/status by hitting “where’s my refund” and it still says "in processing", but will enter a date of arrival to us when known, yeah sure, and they probably will try next to sell me some swampland in Florida or New Jersey! LOL!