Must-know social media acronyms/abbreviations and their full meaning

• Posted on May 29, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Social media has become part of lives of human beings and that is where people live lately. www.233times.net is sharing with Readers some of the must-know social media acronyms/abbreviations and their full meaning. They are;

AIDA – Attention, Interest, Desire, Action

AMA – Ask Me Anything

ASL – Age/Sex/Location

b/c, bc – Because

B2B – Business-to-business

B2C – Business-to-consumer

BAE – Before Anyone Else

BFF – Best Friends Forever

BRB – Be right back

BTAIM – Be that as it may

BTW – By the way

CAN-SPAM – Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act

CC – Carbon copy

CMGR – Community manager

CMS – Content Management System

CPC – Cost per click

CPM – Cost per thousand

CR – Conversion rate

CTA – Call-to-action

CTR – Clickthrough rate

CX – Customer experience

DAE – Does anyone else … ?

DFTBA – Don’t forget to be awesome

DM – Direct Message

ELI5 – Explain like I’m 5 (years old)

ESP – Email service provider

F2F – Face to face

FaTH – First and Truest Husband

FB – Facebook

FBO – Facebook official

FF – Follow Friday

FOMO – Fear of Missing Out

FTFY – Fixed that for you

FTW – For the win!

FUTAB – Feet up, take a break

FYI – For your information

G2G – Got to go

GG – Good game

Gr8 – Great

GTR – Got to run

HBD – Happy birthday

HMB – Hit me back

HMU – Hit me up

HT – Hat tip

HTH – Here to help / Happy to help

HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language

IANAD – I am not a doctor

IANAL – I am not a lawyer

ICYMI – In case you missed it

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

 

IO – Insertion order

IRL – In real life

 

ISP – Internet service provider

 

JK – Just kidding

 

 

KPI – Key Performance Indicator

 

L8 – Late

Ex. “Running L8! See you in 15. :)”

LI – LinkedIn

LMAO – Laughing my a** off

 

LMK – Let me know

 

LMS – Like my status

 

LOL – Laughing out loud

LOLz – Laughing out loud (plural/sarcastic)

MCM – Man crush Monday

MM – Music Monday

MT – Modified tweet

 

MTFBWY – May the force be with you

 

NM – Not much

NSFL – Not safe for life

NSFW – Not safe for work

 

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

 

PPC – Pay per click

 

PM – Private message

 

PPL – People

 

PR – PageRank, or Public relations

 

PV – Pageviews

 

QOTD – Quote of the Day

 

ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing

ROFLMAO – Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off

 

ROI – Return on investment

 

RSS – Really simple syndication

RT – Retweet

RTD – Real-time data

 

SaaS – Software as a service

 

SEM – Search engine marketing

 

SEO – Search engine optimization

 

 

SERP – Search engine results page

SFW – Safe for work

 

SM – Social media

SMB – Small business

SMH – Shaking my head

 

SMM – Social media marketing

SMO – Social media optimization

 

SMP – Social media platform

 

SoLoMo – Social, Local, Mobile

SOV – Share of voice

 

TBH – To be honest

 

TBT – Throwback Thursday

 

TGIF – Thank goodness 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

 

UI – User interface

 

URL – Uniform Resource Locator

 

UV – Unique visitor

UX – User experience

 

Via  – Used to refer to someone on social media, “via” often comes in to play when referencing a site that published a piece of content.

 

w/ – With

WBU – What about you?

 

WCW – Woman crush Wednesday

 

WDYMBT – What do you mean by that?

WOM – Word of mouth

WOTD – Word of the Day

YMMV – Your mileage may vary

 

YOLO – You only live once

 

YSK – You should know

 

YT – YouTube