Top 10 terms every parent of teenagers should know

Below is a listing of what we believe should be the top terms or lingo parents of teenagers should know. Knowing these terms can help you relate more with your child as well as help identify whey they may be hiding something from you.

Term	Meaning
FOS MOS P911 PAL PAW PIR TOS CD9 Code9	Parent, Teacher, or other Adult watching.
ASL MorF RUMORF	Age, Sex, Location. Also in chat MorF or RUMORF is used to ask if male or female.
143 459 ILU	I love you text message code.
F2F LMIRL MIRL RL	Face to Face, as in lets meet in person. May also use MIRL, LMIRL, or RL, which is short for requesting to meet in real-life.
420	Marijuana or other drug related text message code.
Sexting 8	Term used to describe the act of sending sexual, explicit, or pornographic messages or photos over a text message. The numeric code 8 is also used as code for oral sex.
GNOC GYPO NIFOC	Get Naked On Cam. Also related is NIFOC, which is short for Naked In Front Of Computer and GYPO, which is short for Get Your Pants Off.
KPC	Keep Parents Clueless.
RUH	Are you Horny?
S2R STR	Send to Receive, used when asking for someone's picture in order to get theirs.

In addition to the terms mentioned above Computer Hope has hundreds of other used shorthand terms and chat slang.