Originally posted on eurorscgpr.com/blog.

There’s a new digital lexicon spoken fluently by today’s teenagers but barely understood by their elders. Naturally, POS (“parent over shoulder”) is on the list. This private language is only one facet of the complex of communications used by teens today. Technology, microculture and, most of all, interactivity have combined to create a whole new world of communication for teens and their families.

It’s no surprise, then, that today’s teens have been called the Lord of the Flies (or maybe more appropriately, Lord of the Files) generation, since children are educating and acculturating one another in [ ...continue reading ]