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Here’s a test to make you feel old . . . or young if you nail it. Someone posted a list of the most popular abbreviations people use online.
1. DM: Direct message
2. JK: Just kidding
3. BRB: Be right back
4. TBH: To be honest
5. IRL: In real life
6. NSFW: Not safe for work
7. TTYL: Talk to you later
8. NBD: No big deal
9. IMO: In my opinion. Or, IMHO is “in my humble opinion.”
10. FTW: For the win
11. SMH: Shaking my head.
12. IDK: I don’t know
13. IDC: I don’t care
14. MSG: Short for the word “message”
15. OMW: On my way
16. G2G: Got to go
17. TFW: That feeling when
18. MFW: My face when
19. ILY: I love you
20. IMU: I miss you (Yes, a ‘U’ even though the word “you” starts with a ‘Y’.)
21. ICYMI: In case you missed it
22. SRSLY: Short for the word “seriously”
23. TLDR: Too long, didn’t read (Technically, there’s a semi-colon in that one: TL;DR.)
24. BAE: Before anyone else (Bae is also just short for “baby” or “babe.”)
25. SOML: Story of my life
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/decode-internet-slang-receive-friends-family
