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The government wants to help parents decipher the dangers of teen chat

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What are your kids saying online? (Picture: Getty)

Parents, if your child is offering to GNOC, or to give up their ASL online, then you should be worried.

Of course, it’s hard to be aware of the dangers if you don’t have a clue what the acronyms mean. For the record, GNOC, alarmingly, stands for ‘get naked on camera’, while ASL means ‘age, sex, location’.

A new guide has set out to translate these acronyms, and other terms used by teens on social media, to help parents spot the dangers.

It will allow mums and dads to know when their child has issued a P999, or a PAL, making their online friends aware that a parent is lurking. And when they’re zerging – zerg means ‘to gang up… Read the full story


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