1727 Smish Smash

It's hard to keep up on technology. Both the upside and the downside. I'm not just talking about keeping up with changing the privacy settings on Facebook so the information thieves don't plunder your data.
Privacy is a big concern. From the GPS in your smartphone tracking your every movement to potential employers asking for your social media passwords, modern times make it harder and harder to maintain a standard of cyber-decency.
They want us to be naked.
Used to be I just worried about simple things. Like I needed to get a bigger monitor so I had room for all my icons. But now there's weird stuff out there. Like something called phishing, which is when nefarious organizations send you emails disguised as important communications from your bank or insurance company and ask you to send in personal data to verify your account. You end up sending them your Social Security number and mom's maiden birth date and spam-bam-thank-you-mam, your identity has been theived.
Bad stuff has expanded so rapidly our language has barely been able to keep up. "Spam," for gosh sake, what a word. And "phishing." Well now there's another one. "Smishing." Yep, smishing, like smish smash I was taking a bath. Except this time it's the financial bath you'll take when you give out your data.
Smishing is the smartphone equivalent of phishing. It's phishing by text, offering $1000 gift cards to places like Wal-Mart in exchange for your personal info data verification.
So far it's just text messages. I've no doubt that soon we'll see them throw out such bait for Twitter too. Fish like worms but so do birds. Expect to see a new bad tech word soon.
The baddies will be trying to gather gullibles from the Twishing well.
America ya gotta love it.