Texting Abbreviations That Everyone Should Know
No one will blame you for not understanding WTF your kids are texting the first time you sneak a peak at their phones. But for every time after that, just make sure you keep this handy little cheat sheet around to decipher those txts. There is nothing mysterious about texting abbreviations, in fact, many of them are phonetic and will make sense if you just read them out loud. For all the other text speak, we've compiled the list below, and made our best efforts to keep it down to abbreviations that people actually use.
| TXT | What it Means | |
|---|---|---|
| 2nite | Tonight | |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible | |
| B4N | Bye For Now | |
| BF | Boyfriend | |
| BFF | Best Friends Forever | |
| BRB | Be Right Back | |
| BTW | By The Way | |
| CU | See You | |
| CYA | See Ya | |
| DIY | Do It Yourself | |
| DK | Don't Know | |
| F2F | Face To Face | |
| FWIW | For What It's Worth | |
| G1 | Good One | |
| GF | Girlfriend | |
| GR8 | Great | |
| IMO | In My Opinion | |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion | |
| IRL | In Real Life | |
| JK | Just Kidding | |
| K | Okay | |
| KIT | Keep In Touch | |
| L8R | Later | |
| LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off | |
| LMK | Let Me Know | |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud | |
| NP | No Problem | |
| NUB, N00B | Newbie | |
| OIC | Oh, I See | |
| OMG | Oh My God | |
| PPL | People | |
| POV | Point Of View | |
| QT | Cutie | |
| RBTL | Read Between The Lines | |
| ROTFL | Rolling On The Floor Laughing | |
| ROTFLMAO | Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off | |
| THX | Thanks | |
| SOL | Sh** Out of Luck | |
| STFU | Shut the F**k Up | |
| RTM | Read The Manual | |
| TLC | Tender Loving Care | |
| TMI | Too Much Information | |
| TTYL | Talk To You Later | |
| UOK | Are You Okay? | |
| UR | Your | |
| WRUD | What Are You Doing? | |
| WTF | What The F**k | |
| WTG | Way To Go | |
| XOXO | Hugs and Kisses |