Sexting: Your Parents Are On To You
The website NoSlang.com is devoted to decoding web slang for parents, which is something that should never, ever happen. It was started in 2005 as a way “to impress your kids by speaking their language,” made easy with their GoogleTranslate-esque Internet Slang Translator. You can paste any slang term into the box, press the button, and up comes the Baby Boomer-friendly translation. There are also separate boxes to check if you want the swear words censored, if the slang is in “l33t,” and one that says “include rejects?” which possibly means that it translates Jersey Shore-speak.
The site was created by Ryan Jones after “talking to his boss’s kids on AOL Instant Messenger and not being able to understand a damn thing they were typing.” Despite compiling his vast database of slang, Jone’s still seems ignorant to the times, referring to internet speak as “AOLbonics.”
Why he was talking to his boss’s kids online, we will never know, but it is certain that he is placing dangerous information into the hands of people who do not need to know that FMH means “Fuck Me Harder.”
Common Sexting Slang Terms
Warning: some of these terms are vulgar. This list is nowhere close to exhaustive, words can be combined, removed, and invented on the fly.
8 Oral Sex 143 I Love You cu46 See You For Sex DUM Do You Masturbate? GNOC Get Naked On Cam GYPO Get Your Pants Off GNRN Get Naked right Now FMH Fuck Me Harder IWS I Want Sex IIT Is It Tight? Q2C Quick To Come RUH Are You Horny? TDTM Talk Dirty To Me S2R Send To Receive NIFOC Naked In Front Of Computer SorG Straight Or Gay? JO Jerk Off PAW Parents Are Watching PIR Parent In Room POS Parent Over Shoulder YWS You Want Sex WYCM Will You Call Me
Why can’t we just leave these horny kids alone? Life is hard enough as it is without your mom nosing around in your sexts, asking if you’re GNOCing with your friends.
Maybe I’m just an old far that is not “with it” anymore (cue Chris Farley’s “Matt Foley, motivational speaker” routine), but is sexting really that big of a deal that it needs to be called an “epidemic”? I can count the number of times that “sexting” has been described as a major nationwide epidemic by major news outlets (Today show comes to mind) on two hands … which is one too many!
I can’t help but think that “sexting” is about as serious a problem as Doom and violent video games were when I was in high school … just another issue to boost tv and politician’s ratings during a slow news period, when really they present about as much a danger to America’s youth as those Africanized killer bees that were going to invade America – its just not happening.
In the words of The Who: The kids are alright.