Texting- The Teen Phenomenom

Everyone knows old SMS (what you and I call “texting” today)  like LOL, L8R, IDK.  Here are some that are not quite as common: 4YEO- for your eyes only, 4E- forever and LIC- like I care.  Most adults don’t understand some of this… and that’s a good thing for us. SMSing  was innovated by a man named Mr. Makkonen for abbreviating words.

He used it for a GSM digital mobile phone in 1984 in a pizzeria in Copenhagen with two other friends, Mr. Tiainen and Mr. Tapiola during a conference of mobile communication’s future.  Who would have thought that was the way SMSing came into the world? I think it actually it could have been discovered by other people, but it did come to be international by him.

It has helped us and enhanced our way of life.  “Signs of a youth population increasingly hooked on text messaging abound,” says ABC News. “Sixty-five percent of people between the ages of 18 and 28 send text messages, nearly double the population average of 35 percent, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.” Average teenagers SMS at least 300 times a day.

Texting is good in some cases, but in others it’s bad and even deadly.  We kids think texting is just innocent, but in some cases it may be dangerous.  Last year 6,000 kids were killed in America when texting and driving, or killed by a person texting.

SEE IF YOU CAN DECODE THESE PHRASES

PCT

RUOK

BBL

BRB

GAL

CM

H8

CUL8R

by Reggie S.