Acronym Textionary

HERE IT IS!!

A HARD COPY REFERENCE GUIDE OF TODAY’S CYBERBULLIES AND ONLINE PREDATORS MOST COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS

If you are a parent, guardian, or just concerned about our children as you should be!!

We need to know about what our children are really doing when they go online. Even a seemingly innocent session of web surfing can have unintended or intended consequences for our children, like being harassed by a cyber bully or coming into contact with a sexual predator

Chat and e-mails should be monitored, and every person responsible for children should make the effort to know the child's friends, and their parents. Just because you know your child is talking to someone from school doesn't mean that the conversation cannot be inappropriate

Our children are our future!!

Perhaps the biggest problem with social networking can be summed up with the acronym “TMI” or “too much information.” Our children need to understand that if they reveal too much about their personal lives, it could lead to problems—like susceptibility to cyberbullies, online predators, invasion of privacy, identity theft, kidnapping or lost of life.

These problems are not due to social networking, as they have been around since the advent of email and chat. But with social networking, the volume of content has grown and become much more personal and is easily seen by anyone.

It’s not just children who are at risk. Even adults have been embarrassed or worst by putting too much information on their profile pages for all the world to see.

It’s commonly believed that the Internet is the perfect environment for online predators because it is easy for them to hide their identity, get access to potential victims, and there’s a huge pool of children to target. An online predator is a criminal who generally targets children with the goal of manipulating them into meeting for inappropriate relationships.

OR maybe you just want to learn what the different acronyms mean and how to use them yourself. When you receive a text with an acronym in it, don’t be the one to text back what does TMI mean.  

Now is the time to be on top of what is going on in the texting, online, and cyberspace world.

If you don’t know what:

TMI, 99, ASLP, N1C, or WAD

mean don’t go another day without knowledge of what the most commonly used acronyms are.