No need to speak: Teens find instant messaging says it all.(Neighbor)(Batavia) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) (9/25/2003)
...have them translate. Instant messaging over the Internet...They can blast their messages across the Internet...They can color their messages using all of the hues...a whole alphabet of acronyms that are often used...first learned to instant ...

Learning Language: Spelling still counts: Teachers stay tough in imparting grammar and spelling skills in an e-mail, instant-message world. Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) (2/8/2007)
...informal communication through e-mail, instant messaging, Internet blogs and cellular...said. Those simplistic abbreviations, acronyms and phonetic spellings known as "text-speak" or "instant messaging-speak" have crept into students...

RU OK w IM?; Instant messaging can be a useful communication and collaboration tool, but network executives worry about security and usage policies. Network World (2/25/2002)
RU OK w IM? Instant messaging can be...banging out instant messages to sales staff...Quick ? instant messages pop up on an end...than one instant message thread going at...abbreviations and ...

Instant Online Messages Let Fingers Do the Talking.(Brief Article) Insight on the News (8/20/2001)
...Increasingly common `instant messaging' is causing...later." And LOL is the acronym for "Laughing out loud...quarters of teens online use instant messages -- IMs for short...uninformed when it comes to instant messaging. More than...

Generation Text: Teens' IM lingo evolving into a hybrid language. Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (4/29/2003)
...Dunnewind For teens, instant messaging is a real...139 million instant-message accounts operated in...messaging is full of acronyms (BRB equals "be right...possible. For text messages on mobile devices...s uncool to use IM ...

Is the enterprise getting the (instant) message?(In perspective) MSI (10/1/2003)
...experimenting with how instant messaging--or IM...enterprise software. Instant messaging permits people...IM, the sender of a message knows the relative availability...knows the sender of the message and its relative importance...team that coined the ...

SpectorSoft "Parent's Guide to Internet Lingo" Cracks Secret Online Language of Children and Predators. Internet Business Newsweekly (1/18/2010)
Simple acronyms like CUL8R and IMHO have rapidly...used in email, chat, text, instant messages, and in Facebook and MySpace...encounters any email, chat or instant message containing an acronym they don't understand, they...

TMI (too much information).(SOUNDING BOARD) JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (5/1/2007)
...ago, I knew the acronym PA would present...chronic overuse of acronyms and jargon in my...people used a few acronyms and medical slang...Slang, lingo, and acronyms used in chat rooms, instant Messages, and Text Messaging...

I.M., I Said! The Medium Is The Instant Message.(The City) The New York Observer (New York, NY) (10/16/2006)
...the era of e-mail is over. It's been supplanted by instant-messaging: a quicker, shorter and far more effective...this has come an entirely new lexicon of abbreviations and acronyms, along with a new set of social protocols. Herewith, then...Broadcast News. Wherein we witness the coining of ...