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The phone industry has come a long way it all started out with horse riders delivering messages from town to town. From horse riders to high tech and texting or what has been labeled sexting.

If you haven’t heard about this website, then your friends probably thought you weren’t cool enough to handle it. Maybe they were trying to protect your delicate sensibilities. In any case, I’m willing to blow the lid off of this well kept secret.

Cell phones, Twitter and Facebook.

The 21st Century is heralding many changes, large and small, across all spectrums. Speed and brevity has become paramount to accuracy. There is a desperate need to be the FIRST. To get the message across as quick as possible. Texting and emailing has superceded all before them, shooing grammar and correct spelling away in the pursuit of brevity and time-management. The new shorthand has dispensed with comma’s and full-stops, and any form of grammatical PC. Punk grammar has taken over! Time is the thing, an added burden to the already work-stressed, over-pressured, income earner. But there is hope. Fortunately there are still a few language pedants about.

Keeping kids safe online starts with knowing what they are saying. Learn the meaning of the most common acronyms kids are using when texting or instant messaging.

Commentary about the decline of language skills in the “information age”.