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Raise Your Web Vocabulary

When I go to read a new blog, I can tell if it's written by a twenty-something.  When I check my niece's facebook posts, it feels like I'm in a foreign country.  Wait, I am in a different country but you get my point.  Sometimes it's just my age that's showing.  Most of the time, this is just too deliberate.  Teens are inventing ways to make it harder for their parents to check what they are doing online.

I do recommend talking to your son or daughter directly about it.  An honest question should be very helpful.  I also recommend that those of us being left behind should try to catch up.  So I have two websites that can be very instructive when it comes to difficult words and acronyms popping up everyday in the internet.  I wonder if they're still calling it that.

I have the Urban Dictionary included in the search engines inside Mozilla Firefox.  If you have the latest version of Firefox then it is easy to add search engines, just click the arrow icon in the search field.  This dictionary should also serve you well when you hear words thrown at you in anger. 

The second one is Teen Chat  Decoder.  If you own an iphone (and I'm talking to my sister) there's an app for it.  This website is simple like the google search.  You just type the search string and that's it.


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