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Looking for common chat acronyms, smileys and emoticons? Micro-blogging and text messaging are the hottest trends now a days with the up come of websites like Twitter, Facebook, etc., which allows you to post short messages limited in number of characters. To make the most of the available characters, using short forms of words, acronyms and emoticons is a brilliant idea and most of the people use these short forms in chatting and IM's.

 

While you are chatting online using an instant messenger or via SMS you need to work out your fingers really fast on the keyboard to keep up with the chat. By using short forms and symbols this task is really easy but most of the users do not know the meaning or which short forms to use. Online gamers also use these short forms to stay in contact with their friends.

 

SMS & Chat: Acronyms, Smileys, Emoticons

 

Herein are the most used short forms and symbols in chatting.

 

Starting with the numbers:

 

121  - One-to-one

143  - I love you

2G2BT  - Too good to be true

2MI  - Too much information

2NTE  - Tonight

4  - for

9  - Parent is watching

 

Special characters

 

?  - I have a question/ I don't understand what you mean

?4U  - I have a question for you

;S  - Gentle warning, like Hmm? what did you say?

^^  - Meaning read line or message above

^5  - high five

<3  - Meaning sideways heart (love, friendship)

<33  - Meaning heart or love (more 3s is a bigger heart)

 - smile

 - wink

*g*  - giggles

@-/-  - a rose

:-)  - smile

<:-|  - curious

:~)  - cute

:-}  - embarrassed

:,-( or ;'-(  - to cry

>:-(  - angry

:-O  - shouting, or shocked

;-P  - sticking tongue out

:-(  - sad

 

Short Forms / Acronyms

 

A3  - Anytime, anywhere, anyplace

AA  - As above

AAP  - Always a pleasure

ACK  - Acknowledge

ACPT  - Accept

AND  - any day now

AFK  - Away from keyboard

AH  - At home

ASAP  - As Soon As Possible

ASL  - Age/Sex/Location

AT  - At your terminal

B  - Back

B2W  - Back to work

B4  - before

BBL  - be back later

BF  - boyfriend or best friend

BFN  - bye for now

BTW  - by the way

BDAY  - Birthday

BOL  - Best of luck

BRB  - Be right back

CAM  - Camera

CM  - Call me

CSL  - Can't stop laughing

CU  - See you

DH  - Dear

D/L  - Download

DM  - Direct message

DUR  - Do you remember?

E1  - Everyone

EMA  - E-mail address

EZ  - Easy

F2F  - Face to face

FW  - Forward

G  - Grin, Giggle

GN  - Good night

HF  - Have fun

HRU  - How are you?

I2  - I too (me too)

IB  - I'm back

IC  - I see

IK  - I know

ILY  - I love you

IM  - Instant message

IMS  - I am sorry

JW  - Just wondering

JK  - Just Kidding

KB  - Keyboard

L2G  - Like to go?

LOL  - Laughing out loud

LOTI  - Laughing on the inside

LVM  - Left voice mail

N1  - Nice one

NE1  - Anyone

NT  - Nice try

NVM  - Never mind

NVR  - Never

OOH  - Out of here

PCM  - Please call me

PIC  - Picture

PLS or PLZ  - Please

PM  - Private Message

POS  - Parent over shoulder

PZA  - Pizza

RU  - Are you?

RX  - Regards

S2S  - Sorry to say

SC  - Stay cool

SH^  - Shut up

SIT  - Stay in touch

SOS  - Meaning help

SS  - So sorry

STW  - Search the Web

SUP  - What's up?

SYS  - See you soon

THX  - Thanks

TY  - Thank you

U  - You

UL  - Upload

UNA  - Use no acronyms

UR  - Your / you're

VIP  - Very important person

VRY  - Very

W@  - What?

W3  - WWW

WAS  - Wait a second

W/B  - Write back

WB  - Welcome back

WC  - Welcome, Who cares

WKD  - Weekend

WU  - What's up?

WUF  - Where are you from?

XD  - really hard laugh

XLNT  - Excellent

Y?  - Why?

YR  - Yeah right

YW  - You're welcome

Z  - Zero

ZUP  - What's up?