Learning the IM Lingo:
POS - Parent over shoulder
PIR - Parent in room
P911 - Parent alert
LMIRL - Let´s meet in real life
F2F - Face to face
ILU or ILY - I love you
L8R - Later
NAZ - Name, address, zip
TOM - Tomorrow
More like this at http://www.netlingo.com
Important Teen Tech Terms:
| Away Message | What people see on their Buddy List when your computer is on, but you are not available. |
| Buddy List | Group of approved chatters on your IM list. |
| Dodgeball | A social network that links your online community to your cell phone. Sending a text message to 36343 automatically pings a message with your location to all your friends. |
| IM (Instant Messaging) | A conversational method of text communication in which participants carry on a dialog in a single onscreen computer window. |
| Mal-ware | "Malicious Software", a general term for spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, and other infestations that afflict computers. |
| Phishing | Any scheme designed to obtain potentially valuable information about a user. |
| Screen Name | In IM, an "alias" for your real name. Users can have many screen names, and use this option to go online without appearing on Buddy Lists that contain their other screen name(s). |
| Text (Text messaging) | A text message sent from one cell phone to another. |
| Top Ten | Your "top ten" friends, very important to MySpacers. Ranks change. |
Michelle LoGuidice, CA 02/27/08
weak, I was hoping for more information than this...
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