Social media – Facebook, Twitter, Instant Messaging and even SMS– all the cool kids are doing it and the rest of us are following along. Some services like Twitter and SMS limit the size of each message so you need to be short and sweet. This has led to a whole new ‘language’ of phrases, acronyms and abbreviations that are commonly used all over the internet which are becoming more common in everyday life. Here is a list of 10 of the more common ones:
- LOL: Laugh out loud: something you or someone else said that you find funny
- ROFL: Rolling on floor laughing or LMAO: Laugh my arse off; Something you or someone else said is really funny. There are countless variations of this Tip: if there is an F included somewhere, it doesn’t stand for fridge.
- FTW: For the win, use in praise of something. e.g., Belly Beyond FTW!
- IMO: In my opinion or IMHO: in my honest/humble opinion
- IYKWIM: If you know what I mean
- OMG: Oh my god/goodness or OMFG
- WTF: What the f-word
- BTW: By the way
- RT or PRT: Retweet or please retweet
- Also worthy of a mention is the Twitter hashtag #fail – it’s not an acronym but represents the writers opinion of failure about something or someone. “Latest Hanover deal #fail” or “#epicfail (a failure of epic proportions)
The list is copied from here
