Warning to Parents: Obscure Acronyms Like I.H.Y.D.M.A.W.S. Can Evade Apple's Anti-Sexting Technology

Today, a devastating, um, blow was felt by the tween sexting community: Apple patented a new function that scans text messages for explicit content. “The technology, which has not been commercialized, would let a phone’s administrator block an iPhone from sending or receiving texts with certain words,” reports CNN. “Messages containing blocked material either would not be received or would have the objectionable content redacted.” In response to the advent of anti-sexting technology, Kids Today, a notoriously fast-adapting species, are expected to invent ever more obscure and explicit acronyms—far more sophisticated than the eminently detectable “FU,” “BJ,” and “HJ,” which now figure prominently in such XXX SMSs and have already been archived in that indispensible taxonomy A Parents’ Guide to Teen Online Acronyms. Your VF Daily blogger, an admitted former teen herself, suggests that parents be on the lookout for the following obscure acronyms that might be formulated from a distinctly adolescent sexual vernacular.

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