Thanks to Time online: http://techland.time.com/2012/05/03/92-teen-text-terms-decoded-for-confused-parents/
"These 92 terms are among the most popular, but know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
"These 92 terms are among the most popular, but know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
- 143 I love you (popularized by no less awesome a source than Mister Rogers himself)
- 2DAY Today
- 4EAE For ever and ever
- ADN Any day now
- AFAIK As far as I know
- AFK Away from keyboard
- ATM At the moment
- B/C Because
- B4 Before
- BF / GF Boyfriend / Girlfriend
- BFN Bye for now
- BOL Be on later
- BRB Be right back
- BTW By the way
- DM Direct message
- DWBH Don’t worry, be happy
- F2F or FTF Face to face
- FB Facebook
- FF Follow Friday (Follow Friday is a recurring topic on Twitter. Each week, users post lists of people that they think others should followusing the #FF or #FollowFriday hashtag.)
- FTL For the loss / For the lose
- FTW For the win
- FWB Friends with benefits
- FWIW For what it’s worth
- FYEO For your eyes only
- FYI For your information
- GLHF Good luck, have fun
- GR8 Great
- HAK Hugs and kisses
- HAND Have a nice day
- HT or H/T Hat tip or heard through (usually referencing news or an informative link)
- HTH Hope this helps / Happy to help
- IANAL I am not a lawyer
- IDK I don’t know
- IIRC If I remember correctly
- IKR I know, right?
- ILY / ILU I love you
- IMHO In my honest opinion / In my humble opinion
- IMO In my opinion
- IRL In real life
- IU2U It’s up to you
- IYKWIM If you know what I mean
- J/K Just kidding
- J4F Just for fun
- JIC Just in case
- JSYK Just so you know
- K or KK Okay
- LMBO Laughing my butt off
- LMK Let me know
- LOL Laughing out loud
- MM Music Monday. Another recurring Twitter topic. In this case, users post a song or two that will get your week off to a better start.
- MSM Mainstream media
- NAGI Not a good idea
- NM Never mind
- NMU Not much, you?
- NP No problem or Now playing (as in “My MP3 stream is now playing LMFAO’s Party Rock.)
- NSFW Not safe for work. If this is attached to a link, you’re strongly advised not to check it out while in the workplace or any other venue where inappropriate content would be, well, inappropriate.
- NSFL Not safe for life. Usually a humorous disclaimer that something formerly innocent is going to be irreparably sullied if you click the link.
- NTS Note to self
- OH Overheard
- OMG Oh my God
- ORLY Oh, really?
- PAW Parents are watching
- PLS or PLZ Please
- PPL People
- PTB Please text back
- QQ Crying. Rather than an abbreviation, this is an emoticon, a picture created in text. The tails of the capital Q form tears, while the circles are the eyes. Saying “QQ” aloud also can mimic the “boo hoo” of someone who’s upset. Usually used sarcastically or contemptuously.
- RAK Random act of kindness
- RL Real life
- ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing
- RT Retweet. Similar to forwarding an email, Twitter lets you echo other people’s tweets for your own followers to read. In some cases, folks will ask for something they’ve said to be amplified by saying “Please RT” or “PLS RT.”
- RUOK Are you okay? In Australia, #RUOK is a regularly trending topic, following a government initiative called RUOK Day, which raises awareness of mental health issues on social networking sites.
- SMH Shaking my head
- SRSLY Seriously
- SSDD Same stuff, different day
- SWAK Sealed with a kiss
- SWYP So, what’s your problem?
- TIA Thanks in advance
- TIME Tears in my eyes
- TMB Tweet me back
- TMI Too much information
- TMRW Tomorrow
- TTYL Talk to you later
- TY or TU Thank you
- VSF Very sad face
- WB Welcome back
- WTH What the heck?
- WTPA Where the party at?
- WYCM Will you call me?
- YGM You’ve got mail (to alert your texting partner that you’ve contacted them via that staid old email thing. That’s sooo 2001!)
- YMMV Your mileage may vary
- YW You’re welcome
- ZOMG Oh my god (sarcastic)"
The above is just a sampling
of several of the acronyms the kids use for texting, oddly enough they do make a
lot of sense and some I have even used for myself.
Boy, I feel for all you
parents/grandparents, out there and we would be the grandparents out there too,
since that is where our age numbers roll on the upper end and since most of my
friends have teenage grandkids, some older than that and a few with younger.
Any-who, we don’t and sure many
a day I wish we did have.
But until they figure out how
grandparents can give birth to grandchildren without being from some loony
inbred background wacko people there is no manufacturing of them even if you do
yearn for them on many an occasion, except when the word comes down on the
newest sneakiest way to not let Mom or Dad in on things like their live,
school, friends etc. then I take one heck of deep breath and say whew!
We may have been lenient
parents with a lot of trust in our sons own judgment but we did always know who
their friends were and where they would be going with them.
It’s very tough today, when ours were growing
up during the seventies and eighties, since they were really well grown by the
1990’s and not much worries then, but they could not do what they kids today
can do with all their techno devices.
Between sexting, sending those
naked photos to people and or actually performing a sexual behavior that’s all very
scary I would think to any parent!
And those predators all over
the Internet, yes they have been around way too long.
As much as I would really
like a few of our own like those adorable kiddies you all post, I wish you
wouldn’t, due to what the latest info is on posting all those PICS, people
steal them and use them for not nice things.
Hubby is retired law
enforcement, as you all know, and even years ago it was going on with the
predators on line, but now it is way out of hand and I believe worse due to what
I can glean from news reports.
Even our PICS were high
jacked and posted online under my name though, I suppose in a tag and that is
one of the many reasons I do not post too many PICS except the ones that no one
can alter and you too should be more cautious. Weekly there is another story about
young children or teens having their pics used in some way other than intended,
just be aware and more careful please!
Thinking now about the text
messages when done while driving is extremely dangerous, but of all the stuff
out there I suppose they are the least of most parents worries, hmm?
They appear to distract so
many from talking directly to people including their families they show on TV,
I could be wrong since we do not have that issue here personally.
All I do know is that as a
village we should if we could tell children to be careful with their choices…
who am I kidding would they listen?
Perhaps.
But didn’t we all think we
knew better or more or no one understood us at one time or another… I suppose
the old adage the more things change the more they stay the same, and yep they
do.
On that note of sure it is,
and still jealous of all you grands, allow me to be the very first to wish you
all a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your
blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
Update: I found out from that
IRS related number that when that additional info was mailed by us snail mail
two weeks ago they feel that it takes ten days to receive it and then another
six to eight weeks to process it and that they cannot confirm or deny that they
received it! A BLANK PAGE! CRAZY! PS I do go daily to irs.gov to see what is
going on/status by hitting “where’s my refund” and it still says "in processing", but will
enter a date of arrival to us when known, yeah sure, and they probably will try next
to sell me some swampland in Florida or New Jersey! LOL!