If you’ve ever looked at online and local personal ads and wonder exactly what all those abbreviations and slang terms mean, this guide will help you decipher the dating text chat and personals ad lingo.
Online personals, classifieds and dating sites are places to go if you’re looking for friendship, companionship or romance. When you place an ad or create an online profile, it tells others about you: your personality and what you’re looking for in a relationship. To use online classified personals, sometimes you need to pay for the ad space and people will use abbreviations to fit in all the things they want to mention in the ad, without going over the maximum character limit.
If you have ever taken a look at online and local personal ads and didn’t understand all the abbreviations and slang terms mean, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the dating text chat and personals ad lingo by providing the definitions to the more common abbreviations.
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This article was originally published on June 12, 2009