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A Children’s Treasury Of Texting Slang
It’s texting’s 20th birthday, and as part of the celebration, we’ve rounded up a little museum of texting slang. You may know some of it very well, you may not recognise some of it at all. You may even find the existence of some of it to be quite dubious.
Happy 20th Birthday, SMS!
Try and tally up all the text messages you have ever sent in your life. Every single one. From the very first time you recharged your Nokia 3315 with credit, to the terrible way you broke up with your high-school sweetheart, right through to the one you sent this afternoon telling that gambling site to stop spamming you. Those three messages count towards the total of eight trillion text messages sent every year, and today is the anniversary of the very first. So what did it say?
An Ode To The Relationship-Ruining Autocorrect
Expressing the depths of the love you feel for you partner is difficult enough as it is. It’s even harder when technology conspires against you as it does in Above Average’s latest video, Baby I Lobe You – An Autocorrected Love Song.
Why Breaking Up With Someone Via Text Sucks
Probably the worst part about all the great technology we use to communicate with one another is the ability it gives us not to communicate with one another. Rarely will a text message accomplish what a conversation can. Which is why you should never, ever, not ever break up with somebody via text message. (There are a few possible exceptions to this rule.)
Dress Up Your NSFW Photos With Peekiegram’s Fancy Frames And Boarders
You spend all this time taking the most strategic and appealing photos of yourself, to send to…whomever is in your life to get them, but what if you don’t want to give too much away too early?
Do You Care About Correct Spelling And Punctuation In Text Messages?
Text messaging is arguably the most casual form of communication available. Back when we all first starting texting on our dumbphones, the sort of shorthand style that developed was perfectly reasonable. Why strain to type out full words when a universally understood abbreviation could do the job just as well?
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