Mac OS X Tiger/Meet the Applications/iChat

Introduction Setting Up iChat The Buddy List Instant Messaging Glossary Because typing takes time, it's sometimes too hard to hold a real-time conversation using it. It's commonplace to not capitalize words, use sentence fragments, and abbreviate words to save time. Here's a handy cheat sheet for the most common words of IM lingo: NOTE: This list omits the popular instant messaging obscenities, which are probably best researched on Google. afaik - As far as I know AIM - The AOL instant messaging network, or as a verb, "chat with" or "file transfer" asap - As soon as possible bbl - Be back later bbml - Be back maybe later bbs - Be back soon bc - Because brb - Be right back btw - By the way cu - See you cul or cul8r - See you later fyi - For your information gtg or g2g - Got to go idk - I don't know iirc - If i recall correctly imo - In my opinion imho - In my humble opinion jk - Just kidding jp - Just playing jc - Just chilling k - Okay l8r - Later lol - Laughing out loud np - No problem plz - Please rofl or rotfl - Rolling on the floor laughing ruok - Are you okay thx - Thanks ttyl - Talk to you later wtg - Way to go yt - You There? (as in "Are You There?") Audio Chat Video Conferencing