Facebook Abbreviations and Symbols

Almost everyone is active on Facebook nowadays. It is the best and the easiest way to communicate with many people at a go. You get to send messages via Facebook 'wall' to a particular friend and even chat with different friends at the same time with the help of the chat feature. It becomes quite tedious to type long sentences and phrases while chatting on Facebook. Finger pain due to typing takes away the fun from communication through Facebook. So, people have come up with a bunch of Facebook abbreviations and symbols that make things easy for all of us who are excessive keyboard users. Let us have a glimpse at some of the common Facebook abbreviations that include smileys, chat slangs and text effects in the following paragraphs.

Facebook Abbreviations and Meanings

You must have seen your friends sending you a cute smiley on chat. But, you don't know what it means or maybe you must have seen an interesting symbol on your Facebook 'wall'. You too would love to use these abbreviations and symbols on Facebook, but have no clue how to type them using your keyboard. Worry not! All you need to do is go through the following tables and learn the easy way to create these texting symbols for Facebook and text effect. Also, learn the meaning of the same and understand what do certain abbreviations stand for.

Common Facebook Abbreviations

Facebook Abbreviation	Meaning	Facebook Abbreviation	Meaning	Facebook Abbreviation	Meaning
ASAP	As Soon As Possible	FB	Facebook	GN	Good Night
ASL	Tell Me Your Age, Sex and Location	JK	Just Kidding	IDK	I Don’t Know
Tnx	Thanks	BRB	Be Right Back	OMG	Oh my Goodness!
BTW	By The Way	K	Okay	LMAO	Laugh My Ass Off
M/F	Are You Male or Female?	ROFL	Rolling On Floor Laughing	LOL	Laugh Out Loud
FYI	For Your Information	YNK	You Never Know	SD	Sweet Dreams
WAD	Without A Doubt	LMK	Let Me Know	TY	Thank You

Facebook Smileys with Meanings

Facebook Smiley	Meaning
<(")	Penguin
(^^^)	Shark
:) or :-) or =) or :]	Smile
:D or :-D or =D	Big smile
>:o or >:-o	Smile with closed eyes
:o or :-o	Surprise
:( or :-( or =( or :[	Sad face
;) or ;-)	Wink
:'(	Crying
:* or :-*	Kiss
:p or :-p	Tongue
>:( or >:-(	Angry
<3	Heart
:3	Cat face, mustache
^_^	Pleasant face
-_-	Pleasant face with eyes down
O:) or O:-)	Angel
3:) or 3:-)	Devil
:v	Pacman
:|]	Robot
8) or 8-) or B) or B-)	Glasses
8| or 8-| or B| or B-|	Dark glasses
:/ or :-/ or :\ or :-\	Confused
o.O or O.o	Big and small eye
:putnam:	Human head
#:0	Ahhhhhhhhhh
{:V	Duck
_:^)	American Indian
<:-I	Dummy
*<:-)	Santa Claus
|:-|	Anal-Retentive
-):.........	Dyslexic
*!#*^*&:-)	Schizophrenic
0:-)	Angel
(:-I	Egghead
:-@	Screaming

Facebook Zodiac Symbols

Facebook Zodiac	Meaning
♈	Aries (The Ram)
♉	Taurus (The Bull)
♊	Gemini (The Twins)
♋	Cancer (The Crab)
♌	Leo (The Lion)
♍	Virgo (The Virgin)
♎	Libra (The Scales)
♏	Scorpio (The Scorpion)
♐	Sagittarius (Centaur The Archer)
♑	Capricorn (Goat-horned, The Sea Goat)
♒	Aquarius (The Water Bearer)
♓	Pisces (The Fish)

Facebook Status Symbols

Facebook Status

* •♥•♥•♥•♥ ☜[Enter Status Here] ☞ ♥•♥•♥•♥•

* (¯`•._)([Enter Status Here])(¯`•._)

* ஐ¤*¨¨*¤¨°o.O( Enter Status Here )O.o°¤*¨¨*¤εïз

* -~*’¨¯¨’*•~㊅[Enter Status Here] ㊅~*’¨¯¨’*•~-

* ¯¨’*•~-.¸¸,.-~*’( Enter Status Here )¯¨’*•~-.¸¸,.-~*’

* (¯`•._.•[Enter Status Here]•._.•´¯)

These were just a few of the many Facebook abbreviations and symbols that you can use. You can try typing the code of the smileys or just copy and paste the symbols given above to your Facebook chat or Facebook wall. There are many more such interesting texting symbols that you can use in order to add some flavor to your chats. All you need to do is copy a symbol and paste it in the Facebook chat or wall. This is all for now. Hope, you enjoy using these common Facebook abbreviations in your daily social networking lingo.