There are days when I think that the Information Age is just flying by too fast for me to keep up. New social bookmarking sites spring up with goofy, made-up names. Everyone wants to be the next new buzz word, but bizarre spellings and strange names don’t guarantee being memorable.

Then there are the texting codes springing up among heavy text messaging users. These range from BFF (best friends forever) to NBD (no big deal) and from there, you have to be on the “in” crowd to keep up. Sorry, not interested.

I do sympathize, to a degree, with the need for such abbreviations. I am a Twitter user and 140 characters is awfully short to get a message across. But it has taught me to be economical with my words. That or have a part one, part two and sometimes part three to a Tweet. I know, that defeats the whole purpose of tweeting on Twitter. But that’s better than sending something like this: “Get ur p-s pw 4 Tarzan tx 2day,” and hope my followers know p-s pw means pre-sale password.