The phrases “gram” and “pwned” have left mums and dads scratching their heads as they try to decipher what on earth their offspring are talking about, a study has shown.
Researchers who polled 1,000 parents and their children aged eight to 13 revealed 45 per cent of adults wished they could speak more confidently to other generations.
Around one in four had no idea the “gram” referred to social media platform Instagram, and nearly four in 10 did not know “hangry” is a portmanteau used when one is angry due to hunger.
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Only one quarter were able to identify that to be “pwned” means being “owned” – i.e. losing an argument online.
In fact, one in five adults believed it was just a misspelling of “pawned”.
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A further 25 per cent did not know “The Gram” refers to social media site Instagram.
To bridge the generational language gap, O2 and the NSPCC have launched a quiz pitting the digital knowledge of parents’ against their kids.
Nina Bibby, chief family officer of O2, said: “With our partnership with the NSPCC, we want to help parents have regular conversations about the online world and how to navigate it safely.
“As a mother I know how tricky this can be, and that’s why the Parents v Kids quiz is a brilliant way to get the whole family together and test each other’s digital knowledge, whilst learning about online safety and having fun too.”
The study also found three in 10 parents were unable to identify Zoella as a famous British YouTube star.
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29/50 21 November 2018
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31/50 19 November 2018
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35/50 15 November 2018
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45/50 5 November 2018
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46/50 4 November 2018
The Leicester City team with Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (centre in white uniform) son of Leicester City’s Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha while they pay their respects during the second day of the funeral ceremony at Wat Thepsirin Buddhist temple in Bangkok. Players and staff from the club arrived in Bangkok to attend a mourning rite for the club’s chairman, whose death last week in a helicopter crash stunned the Premier League club
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48/50 2 November 2018
Wreaths reading ‘THE BOSS’, for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, left by Leicester City players outside the King Power stadium. Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside the stadium
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50/50 31 October 2018
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1/50 19 December 2018
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2/50 18 December 2018
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3/50 17 December 2018
Firefighters and police officers attend a memorial service at the Harrods Bombing memorial in west London, on the 35th anniversary of the terrorist attack which left three police officers and three members of the public dead, on December 17, 1983
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4/50 16 December 2018
Theresa May has hit out at Mr Blair, accusing him of “insulting”the British people and the office of prime minister by “undermining” Brexit talks with calls in Brussels for a second referendum.
PA
5/50 15 December 2018
Chester Zoo after a fire broke out in the Monsoon Forest habitat area.
PA
6/50 14 December 2018
Fracking has been halted at the Preston Road site in Lancashire after a series of tremors peaking at 0.9 magnitude
Reuters
7/50 13 December 2018
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today told Theresa May that he expects assurances that there will be no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
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8/50 12 December 2018
Theresa May announces that she is to face a vote of no confidence today
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9/50 11 December 2018
Armed police restrain a man inside the grounds of the Houses of Parliament in London
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10/50 10 December 2018
A demonstrator dressed as Theresa May sells Brexit Fudge in Old Palace Yard, Westminster
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11/50 9 December 2018
A pro-brexit demonstrator speaks into a megaphone at the “Brexit betrayal” march in London. Counter-demonstrators also staged a march in London today
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12/50 8 December 2018
People in Santa costumes in Trafalgar Square, London, as they take part in Santacon
PA
13/50 7 December 2018
A large mural depicting one star being chipped away from the EU flag is seen in Dover. The work has been attributed to Banksy
Reuters
14/50 6 December 2018
A man wearing a storm trooper costume holds a sketchbook belonging to costume designer John Mollo, and showing illustrations for Star Wars costumes, during a photo-call ahead of an auction at Bonhams in central London
Reuters
15/50 5 December 2018
Demonstrators for and against Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament
AFP/Getty
16/50 4 December 2018
Theresa May has suffered an unprecedented defeat after the government was found to be in contempt of parliament for refusing to publish key Brexit papers.
Labour and other opposition MPs, including Ms May’s DUP allies, won a narrow victory on the emergency motion, which argued that ministers failed to comply with a binding Commons resolution to publish the full legal advice on the Brexit dea
Reuters
17/50 3 December 2018
The Independent’s Final Say campaign and People’s Vote delivering to 10 Downing Street their respective petitions calling for a public referendum on Theresa May’s Brexit deal. The Independent editor Christian Broughton delivered over one million Final Say signatures and People’s Vote spokesman Chuka Umunna delivered 300,000 People’s Vote signatures at midday
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18/50 2 December 2018
Competitors take part in the London Santa Run in London’s Victoria Park
Reuters
19/50 1 December 2018
Britain will no longer have access to the EU’s Galileo satellite system (pictured) following brexit
PA
20/50 30 November 2018
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May attend the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Reuters
21/50 29 November 2018
Waves hit the British coast as Storm Diana approaches, in Portreath, Cornwall
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22/50 28 November 2018
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stand with Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (left), the son of Leicester City’s chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, and his mother Aimon watched by Leicester City players (right) as they pause after laying flowers during their visit to the King Power Stadium in Leicester, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the October 27 helicopter crash at the stadium. The chairman was among five people killed when his helicopter crashed in the side’s stadium car park moments after taking off from the pitch
AFP/Getty
23/50 27 November 2018
A demonstrator wearing a mask of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg poses outside Portcullis house to question the refusal of Zuckerberg to give evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee investigation into disinformation and fake news at the Houses of Parliament in London. Facebook boss Richard Allan is expected to be among a number of officials giving evidence to an “international grand committee” on disinformation and fake news
AFP/Getty
24/50 26 November 2018
Artist Joseph Hillier and his sculpture – Messenger, depicting “a young powerful woman”, which will be unveiled next year for Theatre Royal Plymouth. The sculpture, spanning seven metres high and nine metres wide, is too large to be put together at Castle Fine Arts foundry, near Oswestry, so it’s being made in sections with 30 master craftsmen to weld them together
PA
25/50 25 November 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May gives a press conference at the end of the European Council meeting in Brussels. The leaders of the 27 remaining EU member countries (EU27) have endorsed the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement and approved the draft political declaration on future EU-UK relations in a special meeting of the European Council on Britain leaving the EU under Article 50
EPA
26/50 24 November 2018
Environmental activists gather around a mock ‘coffin’, with “our future” written on it, on the green in Parliament Square during a demonstration organised by the movement Extinction Rebellion, calling on the British government to take action on climate and ecological issues. After a week of protest action disrupting the traffic on bridges in central London over the Thames, the social movement Extinction Rebellion, planned a ‘funeral march’ to highlight what they describe as a climate and ecological emergency. Extinction Rebellion demands that the UK government reduces to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and creates a citizens assembly to oversee changes in environmental policies
AFP/Getty
27/50 23 November 2018
England batsman Jonny Bairstow celebrates after reaching his century during Day One of the Third Test match against Sri Lanka at Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo
Getty
28/50 22 November 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May joins a parent and baby group during a visit to the Kentish Town Health Centre in London
Reuters
29/50 21 November 2018
A crashed car, with an object protruding through the windscreen, sits abandoned on the A628 in the Peak District, as a blast of snow hit the north of England
PA
30/50 20 November 2018
Waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham as the cold and wet weather continues
PA
31/50 19 November 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May speaking at the CBI annual conference at InterContinental Hotel. Ms May, speaking at the CBI conference, said it was “important” that the UK had escaped EU rules by the 2022 election, but did not give a guarantee
PA
32/50 18 November 2018
England’s Harry Kane celebrates with team mate Jesse Lingard after he scored the winning goal against Croatia, after coming from 0-1 down during their Nations League match at Wembley Stadium. The win means that England process to the semi-finals of the new competition and relegate Croatia
AFP/Getty
33/50 17 November 2018
Demonstrators on Westminster Bridge in London for a protest called by Extinction Rebellion to raise awareness of the dangers posed by climate change
PA
34/50 16 November 2018
Environment Secretary Michael Gove speaking outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs offices. He confirmed he will remain in post and thinks it is important to continue working with Cabinet colleagues to ensure the best Brexit outcome for the country
PA
35/50 15 November 2018
Theresa May chuckles at a press conference in Downing Street after a tough day in which multiple cabinet members have resigned and a number of MPs have tabled votes of no confidence in her leadership
Reuters
36/50 14 November 2018
Pro-European Union, anti-Brexit demonstrators hold placards and wave Union and EU flags as they protest outside of the Houses of Parliament. British and European Union negotiators have reached a draft agreement on Brexit
AFP/Getty
37/50 13 November 2018
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab leaves Downing Street. Prime Minister Theresa May today faced her divided ministers as negotiators scrambled to secure a divorce agreement with the European Union and anxiety mounted over the risk of a no-deal Brexit
PA
38/50 12 November 2018
Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller (centre) welcomes Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena (left) and London Mayor Sadiq Khan at City Hall in Berlin. The three city leaders are meeting to discuss common challenges, including the consequences of Brexit, immigration and the growth of right-wing populism
Getty
39/50 11 November 2018
Prince Charles, and President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier face the Cenotaph during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony on Whitehall in London. On the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice, the day’s events mark the final First World War Centenary commemoration events hosted by the UK Government
AFP/Getty
40/50 10 November 2018
Fans, players and staff pay tribute inside of the King Power stadium as a silence is observed in memory of Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha prior to their Premier League match against Burnley. The first time a match has been played in the stadium since the owners helicopter crash
Getty
41/50 9 November 2018
Transport Minister Jo Johnson has resigned in protest of the Government’s Brexit plan and called for a Final Say referendum
EPA
42/50 8 November 2018
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech at the British embassy in Paris. Britain’s foreign secretary says Brexit negotiations are in “the final phase” and that he is confident that an agreement will be reached with the European Union.
AP
43/50 7 November 2018
Captain James Pugh places a figure among artist Rob Heard’s installation Shrouds of the Somme, which honours the dead of the First World War, at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. 72,396 small shrouded figures, representing soldiers who died and were never recovered from the Somme battlefields, have been laid out by volunteers and members of 1 Royal Anglian Regiment
PA
44/50 6 November 2018
Adrian Lester, Sir Lenny Henry, Ade Adepitan, Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Marcus Ryder and Meera Syal, as they deliver a letter, signed by a string of stars, to 10 Downing Street, calling for tax breaks to effect change and boost diversity behind the camera
PA
45/50 5 November 2018
EU nationals, living in the UK take part in a demonstration along Whitehall. Three campaign groups, ‘the3million’, ‘British in Europe’, and UNISON came together to form a human chain from Downing Street to Parliament Square and lobby MPs
Getty
46/50 4 November 2018
The Leicester City team with Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (centre in white uniform) son of Leicester City’s Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha while they pay their respects during the second day of the funeral ceremony at Wat Thepsirin Buddhist temple in Bangkok. Players and staff from the club arrived in Bangkok to attend a mourning rite for the club’s chairman, whose death last week in a helicopter crash stunned the Premier League club
King Power/AFP/Getty
47/50 3 November 2018
The Edenbridge Bonfire Society celebrity guy, Boris Johnson, is set on fire in Kent
PA
48/50 2 November 2018
Wreaths reading ‘THE BOSS’, for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, left by Leicester City players outside the King Power stadium. Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside the stadium
PA
49/50 1 November 2018
Google staff stage a walkout at the company’s UK headquarters in London as part of a global campaign over the US tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment. Hundreds of employees also walked out of their European headquarters in Dublin, as well as, other offices in different parts of the world
AFP/Getty
50/50 31 October 2018
Protesters block Parliament Square in London as the environmental group Extinction Rebellion launches a mass civil disobedience campaign demanding action on climate change
PA
Fifteen per cent bizarrely believed the acronym “TBT” stood for “Tomorrow Basketball Time” rather than “Throwback Thursday.”
Another third found themselves baffled by “FTW”, which stands for “For The Win” – meaning something is good.
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Thinking back to their own childhoods, just under half of Britons remembered there being a language gap between themselves and their elders.
It also emerged children from eight to 13 were more confident speaking about who had the most views on YouTube or celebrity culture rather than topics taught on the school curriculum, including history, politics and science.
Laura Randall, associate head of Child Safety Online at the NSPCC said: “It is really important for parents to have regular and open conversations, no matter how old their children are, about how they are using the internet.
“Parents v Kids will help to facilitate that conversation while exploring the online world in a fun and inclusive way.”
The study of 1,000 adults and their children was conducted via OnePoll.com.
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