SMS – Text Messaging Beyond the ordinary me

Smart Phones offers communication via SMS or Text Messaging at a new level. Imagine a new message comes in on your HP and u see this:

 

CU L8r @ *$ k?

 

My reaction – “What on earth is this?”

My wife’s – “Is your friend being vulgar?”

If this is how u SMS, Congratulations! U are part of the millennium generation!

For the rest of us, u are probably born in a time when there was NKOTB, Westlife and ‘Smash Hits’ was part of your weekly diet.

Being in a nation where mobile phones have at least 95% penetration, SMS messaging or “Texting” is part of our everyday lifestyle.

But who would have guessed how SMSing can morph into something filled with various short forms.

Just the other day, I asked my youth – What is TPY? (Toa Payoh)

Another one that confused me initially:

Meet u later at PS? (My initial thought – P.S? – is that Pang Sai?)

Man…there are just so many short forms…& it’s getting harder to keep up.

As an Aspiring Youth Pastor & at the same time, needing to stay relevant for my children, here are some other important acronyms that I picked up the past week.

1. POS (Parents Over Shoulder) – so must be discreet

2. PAL (Parents are Listening) – so I am going to lie rite now

3. P911 (Parents Alert) – Better be careful!

In case you were wondering, what is:

 

CU L8r @ *$ k?

 

It means – See you later at Starbucks, ok?