A great deal of communication on the Internet consists of people typing messages

to one another texting, email, and Twitter, as well as Facebook, Usenet articles,
instant messaging, IRC, chat rooms, discussion groups, and so on.
There are also a number of widely used communication conventions that are
useful to know, for example, hashtags, or the spelling words with as few
characters as possible (r u 4 rl?). You will also encounter a lot of slang, much of
which is created by young people, who have always felt the need to communicate
differently from their parents.
In a similar vein, there are many common abbreviations and acronyms, which are
used both as slang and to save time when texting or tweeting. I have collected the
most important ones in the table below.
The Internet has always been a source of technology inspired slang. Even back in
the early 1980s, Internet users had their own particular argot and abbreviations.
Some of these terms eventually find their way into a more enduring part of the
culture, where they are used for years by people of all ages.