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Man admits sex with 11 yr old girl

This morning in St. Louis, MO Devonte L. Washington, 18, of the 8900 block of Forest Avenue in Overland, was formerly placed on probation Wednesday for length of 5 years. Washington pleaded guilty on 1 count of statutory sodomy and 1 count connected with sexual misconduct, both felonies. Police said he had sexual contact with [...]

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Good Morning America Features TeenChatDecoder.com

Today, the long time morning news show Good Morning America ran a special segment on  how parents can monitor what their teens are saying online via text message short hand. The focus of the segment was Internet slang translator tools for parents and ways for parents to monitor text messages. One of the tools they [...]

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Entrepreneur.com on using specific Lingo for a techno age

Writer Reid Goldsborough did a story for Entrepreneur.com on using specific Lingo for a techno age. In it he talks about the way “information technologyhas changed the way we work and play, it has also changed the way we speak, with new computer-related words and slang coming into existence as frequently as new computer viruses.” [...]

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Mashable.com Features TeenChatDecoder.com

The online information powerhouse Mashable.com recently did a story on Teen Chat Decoder.com and they said some pretty nice things, like: “You can definitely while away a goodly number of minutes decoding an array of baffling slang (for anyone who has had to Google () stuff like “ftw,” “pyt” and “otp,” this could be a [...]

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Outting Teenagers – New Video on Gawkk.com

Internet Maven Chris Parrilio of Gawkk.com recently found a video on YouTube that featured TeenChatDecoder.com. Have you ever wondered what those teenagers are saying when they type acronyms like LOL, WTH, etc? Check out a valuable tool in this video, made by our friend Lamarr Wilson.

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