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The Text Generation Gap

This trend is only emerging clearly i North America now. It's been the norm in places like the UK, Europe and ANZ when I visited there. Many kids had two phones so they could take advantage of different plans for voice and TXT.

The venerable New York Times is taking notice. As usual there's the veil of disrespect and distrust for any youthful trend or behaviour. Here's a link:

Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)

?Text messaging, in particular, has perhaps become this generation?s version of pig Latin. For dumbfounded parents, AT&T now offers a tutorial that decodes acronyms meant to keep parents at bay. ?Teens may use text language to keep parents in the dark about their conversations by making their comments indecipherable,? the tutorial states. Some acronyms meant to alert children to prying eyes are POS (?parent over shoulder?), PRW (?parents are watching?) and KPC (?keeping parents clueless?).?

On a related note, read this post for a link to a test about those ringtones that mostly only teens and your dog/cat can hear! I must be near deafness.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).