20 Internet Acronyms Parents should Know
If you have a child who is hooked on to Facebook or Twitter all day long, you are bound to have come across weird acronyms that kids nowadays use. A sideward glance at the computer screen would have let you bewildered – what on earth could POS mean? Or what could LOL or KPC stand for?
It is high time that you step out of the veil of ignorance. This is essential to keep a tab on your kids’ activities and bridge that ever-widening generation gap between you and your kids. Do not regard yourself as an outdated stone-ager, you can get in the loop if you simply get the hang of a few popular acronyms that netizens all over the world use most frequently.
Here is the list of the 20 most commonly used acronyms that parents should know.
- PLOS – Parents Looking Over Shoulder
- PIR – Parents In Room
- P911 – Parent Alert
- PAW – Parents Are Watching
- PAL – Parents Are Listening
- ASL – Age, sex, location
- MOF – Male Or Female?
- SOG – Straight or Gay?
- LMIRL – Let’s Meet in Real Life
- KPC – Keeping Parents Clueless
- TD2M OR TDTM – Talk Dirty To Me
- IWSN – I Want Sex Now
- NIFOC – Nude In Front Of The Computer
- GYPO – Get Your Pants Off
- ADR – Address
- WYCM – Will You Call Me?
- KFU – Kiss For You
- MOOS – Member Of The Opposite Sex
- NALOPKT – Not A Lot Of People Know That
- GTG – Got To Go