The Art Of Communication

With the popularity and rise in use of online text-based communications came the emergence of a new texting language, tailored to suit. Today, text and chat abbreviations are used in many online communications including Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, email, online gaming and mobile phone texting just to name a few.

ROFL       means Rolling on floor laughing.
LMK         means Let me know.
LOL          means Laugh out loud
YOLO       means You only live once.
SMH         means Shaking my head.
NVM         means Never mind.
IKR           means I know, right.
OFC          means Of course.

Who’d of thought?

What has happened to the art of communication and conversation in these days of online chatter and social media and texted sound bites? It’s a time when points of view are confined to a few characters or boxes, and statements are made rather than questions posed and pondered,