LMIRL, FO REAL!!!11

Just cruising the internet researching e-monitoring when I came across this helpful guide for parents. The Internet Lingo Guide offers parents a chance to communicate with their teens using hip cool slang, and to thwart their evil attempts at privacy. Some examples….

LMIRL: Let’s Meet In Real Life
P911: Parent Alert
8-#: Death

How often does the phrase “Let’s meet in real life” get used by teens? Enough to warrant the abbreviation “LMIRL”. I know kids are lazy and don’t enjoy typing out words, but I’ve never seen that used. Then again, I don’t hang out in preteen chat-rooms… but maybe i should start, it’s the only way to stay tech savvy with all the lingo floating about.

Why do parents need to worry when their teens are using the “death emoticon?” Because they’re too lazy to type out the word death. Obviously a sign of drug use.

If you can stomach more, check out this more radical website. It includes this gem:

IM is another danger. What’s that? That’s instant messaging. You get to send a message to another person instantly. Children are very naive and very trusting. They think they are indestructible. Children have disappeared forever, without a trace, when pedophiles they thought were other teenagers instant messaged them to meet them at a certain place. Suddenly, your child is gone without a trace. Does you kid have dozens and dozens of screen names in his buddy list? Guess what. About 10% of them are pedophiles that he thinks are sexy babes dying to meet him. Oh yeah, know what LMIRL means? That means “Let’s Meet In Real Life.” Lovely.

So very lovely.