PARENTS – Here’s How To Crack Your Kids’ Texting Codes In Maine
As if many of our tweens and teens didn't speak another language, well, at least to us, already, now we have the parental responsibility of 'cracking the text codes' to ensure their safety today.
Many of you might recall the decoders that were placed inside and at the bottom of our favorite cereal boxes. We just couldn't wait to dig our unwashed, nasty hands, through the cereal, and into the bottom of the box to retrieve or much coveted and long-awaited decoder prize.
When I was a tween and teen, growing up in the 80's, we didn't text in code, but we certainly spoke in code.
I remember we had a phone in the kitchen and when dinner was over, and my parents were still at the table, I'd pick up the phone when a friend would call.
If you've ever been a smoker, then you know burning a smoke after dinner, or any other meal for that matter is a must. So, in code, I would tell my friend that I'd be over after dinner and then I would ask, "Is 'Rick' over there?'
Rick was short for Cigarette. My friends knew what I was saying and if they said 'yes', then I knew where I could bum a smoke after dinner.
Times have changed and so has how we communicate. Today, parents may want to pay attention to codes that are being sent back and forth from their tweens and teens, via texting, as it may help to keep them from harm.
Here are some of the codes and their meanings.
- 9 or CD9: Parents are nearby
- 99: Parents are gone
- 143: I love you
- 182: I hate you
- 1174: Party meeting place
- 53X: Sex
- 2DAY: Today
- 4EAE: Forever and ever
- ADN: Any day now
- ADR: What's your address
- AFAIK: As far as I know
- AFK: Away from keyboard
- ASL: Age/sex/location
- ATM: At the moment
- CU46: See you for sex
- DOC: Drug of choice
- F2F or FTF: Face to face
- FWB: Friends with benefits
- GNOC: Get naked on camera
- GYPO: Get your pants off
- HMU: Hit me up
- IMO: In my opinion
- IRL: In real life
- IWSN: I want sex now
- LH6: Let's have sex
- KMS/KYS: Kill Myself, Kill Yourself
We hope this helps you to decipher the codes that your kiddos use to communicate with friends. What are some codes you've seen? Feel free to share them in the comments section below.
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