Social Media Slang
The Abreviation L.O.L
What is “laugh out loud”?
A social media platform that allows users to create and share short-form videos.
What is Tik Tok
Before email, a device that transferred documents from one office to another via a phone line.
What is a fax machine?
A number surrounded by letters used to communicate that a person needs to log off.
What is g2g?
A social media platform that uses pictures and messages that are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.
What is snapchat?
Before Google or Wikipedia, a collection of books that provided the best source of facts and information.
What are encyclopedias?
A term used to express concern for missing something fun or exciting.
What is FOMO (or “fear of missing out”)?
A social media site that allows users to connect with friends and family online through comments, pictures and posting links.
What is Facebook?
Before cell phones, wearable devices that received incoming phone numbers alerting the receiver to call the sender, often accomplished by payphone. The sender could include other numbers to communicate a sort of “coded” message.
What are beepers or pagers?
Two letters that abbreviate a personal communication exchange.
What is DM?
A social networking service that allows users to share videos and photos.
What is Instagram?
Before computer-based slide presentations, teachers would use this dedicated machine to shine a light through a transparent sheet to present information to a class.
What is an overhead projector?
A shortened term to tell someone that they look adorable.
What is adorbs?
A social networking service that allows users to send and receive text based messages up to 140 characters long.
What is Twitter?
Before the smartphone, a sleek, foldable tech that fits easily in your back pocket and got its name from what you would need to do to access the buttons or keyboard
What is a flip phone?