Text Messaging and Online Chat Abbreviations

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Text Messaging and Online Chat Abbreviations By: Vangie Beal Last Updated: 05-18-2012 , Posted: 02-26-2010

Text Messaging 101: If you have ever received a text message or text-based online chat message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference list of text abbreviations will help you translate the chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,300 text message abbreviations. With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new text language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. While it does seem incredible that there are thousands of texting abbreviations, different chat abbreviations are used by different groups of people when communicating online. Some of the following chat abbreviations may be familiar to you, while others may be foreign because they are used by a group of people with different online interests and hobbies than your own. For example, people playing online games are likely to use chat abbreviations that are different than those used by someone running a financial blog updating their Twitter status.

The Webopedia.com chat guides offer definitions and translations for texting, chat, Twitter, online auction, online personals, classified ad and smiley face abbreviations. 1,364 online chat and text message abbreviations indexed!

Text Messaging & Chat Abbreviations "Numbers & 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"