Perverts break teenage online code

[Burnsy2023]

Oh dear, surely someone should do some background research before writing a pile of pap.

[A Place of Light]

The only one I hadn't heard was POS, or parent over shoulder.

[Rich_L]

I liked the 'sneak-peek' headling in the Metro today about one of the leading articles coming up in the Mail.

Learn how CYBERSPACE is turning today's TEENAGERS into GENERATION SEX!!

It's almost a perfect generic formula:

Learn how [insert something we don't understand] is turning [something else we don't understand] into [something generically shocking]

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

The only one I hadn't heard was POS, or parent over shoulder.

Everyone knows that's not what POS stands for though.
This POS keyboard I'm typing on doesn't pick up key presses.
This POS car keeps breaking down.
The POS parent standing over my shoulder keeps asking what these abbreviations mean.

etc...

[Lana]

seriously, is this news?
they've been on about this forever so that parents will know and be able to see if the kids are hiding something dodgy.
We even have commercials that "translate" for parents and warn them about internet predators.
I'm surprised kids still think they can get away with anything:-P

[iCraig]

But a former Merseyside police officer has cracked the code

Ohhh wow! MI5 will be after him to hack into Russian satellite's next.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

Everyone knows that's not what POS stands for though....

Try again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language


In THIS CONTEXT, it means exactly what I said it does. However, most people who are out of puberty take POS to mean something else, namely piece of excrement.

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Rich_L

I liked the 'sneak-peek' headling in the Metro today about one of the leading articles coming up in the Mail.

Learn how CYBERSPACE is turning today's TEENAGERS into GENERATION SEX!!

It's almost a perfect generic formula:

Learn how [insert something we don't understand] is turning [something else we don't understand] into [something generically shocking]

I read that article and to me it read like a parent blaming her own shortcomings on "the internet". Typical Mail BS though no doubt there are thousands of teenagers out there tonight who are having Bebo withdrawals as their parents have cut off the internet.