In the world of messengers and chat rooms, the use of Internet abbreviations is as natural as seeing another selfie maker at the street. Some people call it Internet slang since many abbreviations are mostly used in informal conversations of specific groups in social media networks. However, the typical slang of British English, American English, Australian English, and others are typically localized whereas Internet abbreviations are universal and used by any person who catches the gist of a chat.
The likelihood you can come up with ten common internet abbreviations is almost as high as the fact that you text or tweet your friends each day. Test yourself, what does NSFW mean in texting? And can you decode at least half of the following abbreviations? LOL, ASAP, OMG, XOXO, B4N, FYI, G2G, FB, MSG, TTYL. Easily?