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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.

N2 2CB. WBU?

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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