FWIW: Abbreviations increasingly used in text messaging, tweets..
Messengers, chats, text messages, tweets and other online social networks have led to an increase use of abbreviations. Because the use of electronic media requires users to be brief, sentences are now being transmitted with five letters or less. Users use acronyms to speed up their communication.
There are more than 1,000 text messaging abbreviations (see the list here: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp). Different chat abbreviations are used by different groups of people when communicating online. Some of the chat abbreviations may be familiar to you, while others may be foreign because they are used by a group of people with different online interests and hobbies than your own. People playing online games are likely to use chat abbreviations that are different than those used by teenagers texting on their cell phone or abbreviations used by someone updating a financial blog.
Even dictionaries now includes definitions for LOL, OMG, FWIW better known as "laughing out loud," "oh my God" and "for what it's worth."
List of most used abbreviations:
bil – boss is listening
paw – parents are watching
99 – parents no longer watching
pcm – please call me
ims – i am sorry
toy – thinking of you
kutgw – keep up the good work
cid – consider it done
fwiw – for what it’s worth
hand – have a nice day
iat – i am tired
nrn – no response necessary
4col – for crying out loud
wrud – what are you doing
lmirl – let’s meet in real life
lol – laugh out loud
omg – oh my god
nsfw – not safe for work
ug2bk – you got to be kidding
gbtw – get back to work
nmp – not my problem
pir – parent in room
gftd – gone for the day
fyeo – for your eyes only
bi5 – back in five
degt – don’t even go there
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