That’s not to say you won’t find plenty of twenty or thirty-somethings on the platform, but the age of the people chatting on Kik is something to keep in mind as you go through our sources for chat rooms.

If you’re an older Kik user, it’s important to remember that the people you’re chatting with online may be underage since Kik’s terms of service only require the user to be 13 in order to use the platform.

It seems like there’s no shortage of ways to communicate with your phone, but what if you want to meet new people with similar interests?

Also see our article How To Know or Tell if Someone Blocked You on Kik There’s plenty of options for meeting new people, including the aforementioned Discord servers and assorted IRC chat rooms if you can find the right community, but Kik has been a popular choice for users since it was unveiled in 2010.

It’s easy to stay anonymous on the platform, making it great for simply chatting with people you don’t know in person, and since the app is well made, it includes plenty of features that can be considered must-haves in 2017.

The interface is modern and clean, the app supports group chats and chat rooms, and the addition of video chat makes it easy to meet people face to face, whether they live down the street or thousands of miles away.

Let’s take a look at Kik as a messenger application and how you can find chat rooms online.

Much as we’d like to dive into discussing Kik as a platform independently of its target audience, it’s important to note the demographics of Kik before diving straight into the app and the assorted chat rooms on the platform.

Katie Greer is a national Internet safety expert who has provided Internet and technology safety training to schools, law enforcement agencies and community organizations throughout the country for more than seven years.

She says research shows that a majority of teens believe that their parents are starting to keep tabs on their online and social media lives.

“With that, acronyms can be used by kids to hide certain parts of their conversations from attentive parents,” Greer said.

“I announced my invention of a new acronym: ‘PYFPD.’ Put your freaking phone down.” LOL!

But back to the serious issue at hand, below are 28 Internet acronyms learned from concerned parents as well as from sites such as No and Net Lingo.com, and from Cool Mom Tech’s 99 acronyms and phrases that every parent should know.