Some Chatroom users type in abbreviations to save time.

Some of the most common ones include:

A/S/L - age?/sex?/location?

B4 - before

BRB - be right back

CYA L8R - see you later

IMO - in my opinion

IMHO - in my honest/humble opinion

LOL - laughing out loud

ROFL - roll on the floor laughing

TY - thank you

U - you

WB - welcome back

troll - people who visit chatrooms for the sole purpose of annoying other chatters

newbie - someone who is new to a chatroom

mods - moderators. People who are employed to check the chatrooms for bad behavior, and to kick offenders out.

spam - duplicate messages posted time after time, in order to disrupt a chatroom

flaming - being nasty to other chatroom users in order to start an argument

Emoticons, or ‘smileys’, help chatters express how they’re feeling. They’re normal punctuation marks arranged to make faces just tilt your head to the left in order to see them!

:-) - happy face (colon, dash, close bracket)

:-( - sad face (colon, dash, open bracket)

;-) - winking face ideal to make it clear that what you’ve just typed is only a joke (semicolon, dash, close bracket)

:-o - shocked face (colon, dash, o)

:-p - tongue poking out (colon, dash, p) (generally used in cheeky good humour)