Short Cuts
When sending a message, you're limited to 150 characters — that's letters, numbers, and spaces. That means to get your message across, u nd 2 sqsh ur wrds 2 cnsrv spce. Squashing your words not only saves space, it saves time.
Some common short cuts are listed below:
| Original Word |
Short Cut |
| Any |
NE |
| Anyone |
NE1 |
| Are you okay? |
RUOK |
| Be |
B |
| Be right back |
BRB |
| Be seeing you |
BCNU |
| Before |
B4 |
| Bye for now |
BFN |
| Can't wait to see you |
CW2CU |
| Joking |
<J> |
| Laughing out loud |
LOL |
| Laughter |
:D |
| See you later |
CUL8R |
| Talk to you later |
TTYL |
| Thank you |
THNQ |
| To, Too |
2 |
| Today |
2DAY |
| Tomorrow |
2MORO |
| Tonight |
2NITE |
| Want to...? |
WAN2 |
| What's up? |
SUP |
