For example, to write the status of the activities of drinking, they did not write the word 'drunk', but 'Getting MWI'. WMI is an acronym of 'mad with it'. A relationship with someone wrote 'taken' or 'Ownageeee', and 'Ridneck', derived from the word 'redneck' which means to feel ashamed. In the meantime, if there are teenage girls write status of 'Legal' on account of social sites, it suggests that he has aged above 16 years old and legally allowed to have sexual relations.
Lisa Whittaker, a graduate student of University of Stirling, who studied adolescents aged 16-18 years in Scotland, said the slang word created to maintain the confidentiality of the account holder's privacy. Whittaker gives an example of a young girl who was fired because his boss found the pictures in which the young girl was drunk.
"Young people often change the language they use to make the page hard to read their accounts by those who are unfamiliar with the reduction of words and colloquial," Whittaker said, as quoted from the pages of The Telegraph. "The language used in the Bebo's far different from the common abbreviations used in the mobile phone short messages, such as eliminating vowels," he continued.
According to Whittaker, using their own language, young people can communicate with their own group and hide from the monitoring of adults. Whittaker will present their research in a seminar at the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data and Methods in Cardiff on Tuesday tomorrow.
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