<p>Have anyone of you checked out the acronyms at aim.com? I want to know who uses these. I mean there’s a few that are almost essential, but everything else is not normal. Maybe it’s just me, but I have never used POC (point of contact), WU? (what’s up?), or BICBW (but I could be wrong). I suspect aim made up most of these. 
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<p>Now I feel really stupid for spelling the title wrong. :mad:</p>
<p>I say “lol”, “btw:, “lmao”, “jk”, “nm”, “g2g”, “brb”,“ttyl”,mainly. and i shorten words like"you” to “u” and “are” to “r”. stuff like that.</p>
<p>Ahh… I hate when people use “r” instead of “are” and “u” instead of “you”!!
Anyway, this reminds me of a story…
Earlier this year, my lab partner/friend told me about a report on Dateline about “online predators”. They were mostly speaking to adults when they said this: “Be wary of your child’s internet activities. There are certain acronyms that you should be specially aware of, like ‘NIOFC’”. Of course, neither my friend nor I knew what this meant, but he told me, “Naked In Front Of the Computer”. We wrote it all over our other friend’s notebook!! Good times, good times…</p>
<p>my issue is with people who spell words incorrectly, but not to save time. just to be cool i guess? the words im talking about are gurl (sometimes gyrl for the especially horrendous); kewl; etc. Its so annoying!</p>
<p>That NIOFC story literally made me laugh out loud! </p>
<p>Yes, I don’t understand gurl or kewl either. :p</p>
<p>i use r and u to save time, not to be “kewl” FYI. I love computer lingo, and i dont carry it over into my schoolwork, so who gives a crap?</p>
<p>I don’t like r and u. I just find it irritating. I don’t know why, just a pet peeve I guess :p</p>
<p>nmjcu
lolz*****
internet slang is kewl ><
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wut r u doing?<em>?</em></p>
<p>shoots self.</p>
<p>Yeah, I normally see them written as “you” and “are”, so it doesn’t make sense to me when I see random r’s and u’s in the middle of sentences lol… Yeah, it’s annoying when I see “gurl” and “kewl”! When I message someone, I don’t normally capitalize my i’s or use periods.</p>
<p>hahahaha. I don’t mind btw, imo, lol, and a few others, but when I need 5 minutes to dissect your message, you’ve gone overboard :p</p>
<p>I don’t capitalize my I’s and only use periods if I’m typing more than one sentence. sometimes I don’t capitalize the beginning. :p</p>
<p>In the military we use POC all the time.</p>
<p>okay civilians don’t use these things that much. :p</p>
<p>NIFOC was a huge joke over at some of the other message boards I used like a year ago. Ahhh, the memories.</p>
<p>lol i h8 wen ppl write h0le sentences like this, cuz its really annoyin nd makes me say wut r u talkin about? dey say its so kewl n they put in all knds o inside jokes and lmaos and jk!!!s n othr such things ok ttyl bai.</p>
<p>No really, I can’t stand when people type like that. Just about the only thing I do is not capitalize my "i"s when talking online.</p>
<p>well i hate that too but when i text message i kind of use that because it saves time and i type/press too slowly. But on the computer i find it annoying.</p>
<p>PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS ARE DESTINED TO BE ON **** W****ELFARE</p>
<p>I use “dunno” instead of “don’t know” a fair bit.</p>
<p>I say dunno too. I use it because that’s kind of how I say it in real life, like an all-slurred up verison of the proper way of saying it ;)</p>