 Dear students, now we are going to talk about the social media slangs. And before talking on the social media stand, let's see the term slang. Slang is a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people. Due to the developments in the information and communication technology and due to the emergence of new communication channels or platforms, people prefer to write short and meaningful. And this is why they use slang in their routine life in order to convey a particular message. So if we talk about the social media slangs, social media slangs, young people and other people use acronyms to communicate with each other. And this is referred as social media slangs. And they do this because in order to avoid writing long messages to save time and is a kind of a social media culture. So these are the three factors that we see on social media that people use social media slangs. The first reason is that people want to talk a lot less in less time and less writing. So to avoid writing too much, they use acronyms that are called slangs. And the second reason is to avoid writing too much in less time and less writing. And nowadays, it is so practiced that it has become a culture of social media that instead of writing proper English words, it is better to use social media slangs. So these are some of the popular social media slangs. For instance, LOL, Laughing Out Loud, BRB, Be Right Back, BTW, by the way, LMK, let me know, WTYL, talk to you later, G2G, Got To Go, WOTD, Outfit Of The Day, DM, Direct Message, FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out, DAE, Day, Does Anyone Else, DYK, Did You Know, HIFW, How I Feel When, NBD, No Big Deal, ROFL, Rolling On The Floor, Laughing, TIL, Today I Learn. So these are some of the popular social media slangs which you see on the social media platforms as a part of the language. So we do not consider it as a kind of formal language, but in social media platforms, this is a kind of a formal language. So when we talk about social media, we heavily rely on these slangs and this is considered formal for the social media. And this thing, this kind of behavior was not popular two or three decades earlier, but this has now become a kind of culture to use slangs to convey your messages or to communicate with others. Why people use these slangs? We have already discussed that to write short to save time and to become to look like a modern person. Thank you.