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| This "instant messaging-speak" or "IM-speak" emerged more than a decade ago. Used in e-mail and cell phone text messages, most teens are familiar with this tech talk and use it everywhere.An increasing number of eighth-graders also submit classwork containing "b4," "ur," "2" and "wata" -- words that may confuse adults but are part of the teens' everyday lives.Junior and high school teachers nationwide say they see a troubling trend: The words have become so commonplace in children's social lives that the techno spellings are finding their way into essays
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| There is a "long tail" Internet theory (about new media allowing content and product distribution channels getting closer to us), which turns out to be not so true. In other words, as Internet is expanding, there should appear more space for domain monsters or small content and product distribution channels. But the statistics over last five years show quite the opposite - there is a 29% growth of top ten domains, mainly "social networks": The point is again about these "social networks" (such as MySpace, FastBook) - they compose most part of the statistics, and had they
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