Know Your Social Media Abbreviations

AMA – Ask Me Anything
ASL – Age/Sex/Location
b/c, bc – Because
B4 – Before
BAE – Before Anyone Else
BFF – Best Friends Forever
BRB – Be right back
BTW – Between, By The Way
DFTBA – Don’t forget to be awesome
DM – Direct Message
ELI5 – Explain like I’m 5 (years old)

FB – Facebook
FBF – Flashback Friday
FF – Follow, Following
FTW – For the win!
FYI – For your information
G2G – Got to go
Gr8 – Great
GTR – Got to run
HBD – Happy birthday
HMB – Hit me back
HMU – Hit me up
IDC – I don’t care
IDK – I don’t know
IG – Instagram
IKR – I know, right?
ILY – I love you
IM – Instant message
IMHO – In my humble opinion
IMO – In my opinion
LMAO – Laughing my a** off
LMK – Let me know
LOL – Laughing out loud
LOLz – Laughing out loud (plural/sarcastic)
MCM – Man crush Monday
MT – Modified tweet
NVM – Never mind
OAN – On another note
OH – Overheard
OMG – Oh my God
OMW – On my way
OOTD – Outfit of the day
OP – Original poster
ORLY – Oh really?!
OTP – One true pairing
P2P – Person to person, or peer to peer
POTD – Photo of the day
PM – Private message
PPL – People
QOTD – Quote of the Day
ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing
ROFLMAO – Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off
RT – Retweet
SM – Social media
SMB – Small business
SMH – Shaking my head
TBH – To be honest
TBT – Throwback Thursday
TGIF – Thank God it’s Friday
Thx – Thanks
TIL – Today I learned
TL;DR – Too Long; Didn’t Read
 TMI – Too much information
TOS – Terms of Service
TTYL – Talk to you later
TTYN – Talk to you never
TTYS – Talk to you soon
Txt – Text
UGC – User generated content
WBU – What about you?
WCW – Woman crush Wednesday
WDYMBT – What do you mean by that?
WOM – Word of mouth
WOTD – Word of the Day
YOLO – You only live once
YSK – You should know