Almost every teen girl in my grade is an expert in the complex language of IM. As I walk down the hall I hear things like OMG ( oh my gosh) and ILY (I love you) being spoken between friends. This is our code language, POS for example, means PARENT OVER SHOULDER and warns your friends to watch their language on the computer. If you noticed I just used you instead of your. These abbreviations are common in this language, U instead of you, Y instead of why. In fact, they are used so much that they accidentally appear in writing assignments. This ‘ lingo” annoys parents to the brink of insanity but to us they area part of life. TTYL!!!