Texting: Can you decipher these text messages?
According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 64% of parents check their children’s cell phones for inappropriate content. Kids have caught on, and they’ve started to communicate in code. Here are just a few examples of text messages that, if discovered on a child's phone, should concern parents.
Translation: “I’m into hallucinogenics. What about you?”
WTG 4 a %/?
Translation: “Want to go for a drink?”
%*@:-(
Translation: “Hung-over and got a headache.”
Ctn pos. tdtm l8r k? :**:”
Translation: “Can’t talk now. Parent over shoulder. Talk dirty to me later, OK? Returning the kiss.”
No 420? Wiyp?
Translation: “No weed? What is your problem?”
LM4a~~#ZZZZZZ>
Translation: “Let’s meet for a joint.”
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