Rollins College student Steve Miller checks text messages on his phone in Winter Park, Fla. As the novelty of their wired lives wears off, young people also are getting more sophisticated about the way they use such tools as social networking and text and instant messaging, not just constantly using them because they're there.

For those of us who do not speak "text" and yet have friends/family who insist on sending us these cryptic messages like WRUD, CIL and SWDYT??? Help is just a click away: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203674704574328920789548170.html?mod=yhoofront

Several translation sites are now available and will prevent embarrasing mishaps like sending IWSN to your boss instead of your spouse.

SWDYT? (So what do you think?)

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