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| Fri, 04-13-2007 - 4:48pm |
Has anyone found a website that can translate the text messages my 14 year old daughter sends? The phone bill gives me the numbers sent...I want to translate that in to text.
Any ideas?
Thanks,

Are you sure what the phone bill is giving you isn't the phone numbers that she sends the text message to? That's all I get on my phone bill, not a record of what was said. If you're trying to figure out the lingo the kids use in their text messaging, try this link:
http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
CUL8R
(See you later)
Rose
You can't - plain and simple.
Text messages are not recorded or saved - only the number the message is being sent to or from is recorded.
I have a very sneaking suspicion that somewhere in the great cyber space community there is a recording of said messages - I mean, if we thought someone was guilty of terrorism or stalking or something, wouldn't the police want some kind of evidence? But I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't be able to get it without some sort of court order - and "I want to know what my teenager is saying to his friends via text" is not really gonna cut it.
Personally, I find I get along with my son better when I don't ask to see his TM's - but that's my son - what you can do (and I did for a while) is insist on looking at your child's phone before they delete incoming our outgoing messages...or tell them you'll block texting. They have to clean up their in and outboxes every 50 messages or so - so you can tell them you're going to look at them first.
I'd be willing to bet you're not going to see anything more substantial than LOL or OK, though.