Over the years instant messaging has brought on it's own special lingo, it is basicly a short hand way of writing the easy thing's, like the other posts on here I too believe that it will cause problems for future kids because they will not know any better.

If you are unfamiliar with the short hand language that has became instant messaging here is a explanation of some of the terms.

TTYL simply means Talk To You Later

I C means I See

y means Why

lol means Laugh Out Loud

brb means Be Right Back

btw means By The Way

bbiab means Be Back In A Bit

bbl means Be Back Later

thx means Thanks

sup means What's Up

l8r means Later

ttfn means Ta Ta For Now

gmta means Great Minds Think Alike

lmao means Laugh My A* Off

imho means In My Humble Opinion

np means No Problem

gtg means Got To Go

As you can see if a young person were to learn this type of lingo before they knew the proper grammer and spelling then it may very well cause an upset later on in life. There are also a few other things that people using intant messengers do but I will not get into it all that much, you will simply be able to know what they mean by looking at them.

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