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What do the abbreviations and strange symbols that people use in their messages mean?

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What do the abbreviations and strange symbols that people use in their messages mean?

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Some Internet users rely on abbreviations to save a bit of typing. There are a multitude of abbreviations and acronyms in common use, but some of the most prevalent ones are: • IMO – In My Opinion • IMHO – In My Humble Opinion • IIRC – If I Recall Correctly • LOL – Laughing Out Loud • ROFL – Rolling On the Floor, Laughing • – Grin • – Big Grin • – Very Big Grin, etc… • – Grinning, Ducking and Running In addition, people sometimes use smileys (a.k.a. emoticons) to express themselves. These are little faces, sideways on, made from the characters you can find on your keyboard. For example: • 🙂 – a smiley • 😉 – a winking smiley • 🙁 – a sad smiley And so on.

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