yea its profile picture

i hate acronyms

You should at least once use full word before putting acronyms in your text

Not sure.. I mean, profile is a single word.. why the "f" is in the acronym?
Searching the internet I've found that it can also stand for “picture for proof” ..perhaps is this the origin? 🤷‍♂️

Guess I'll enroll in the Hella old club too.

I fear the more time passes, the more weird it'll be .. I'm never going to catch up 😅

Naw, that's not it. I've been in the "internet world" for longer than any of you, and the shenanigans we have been seeing in the past ten years are comparatively "new." Ignorance only recently became fashionable with even the so-called "standards of English" (i.e. official dictionaries) adopting new vocabulary and usage as a replacement for well-established precedent.

I remember when this was a hit record.
Never heard of a Rick Roll back in the day.

Don't even understand the change, in the current context, it still makes more sense to call it Private Message in my opinion

what does DM even stand for?

That's how you become a sophisticated elder - I think.

Yes, still young! Thanks :D

btw, really? I thought that rickrolling was considered old by now..

This!
Most of the slang these days I don't know or don't understand, never been a fan of slang since we don't need 100 weird words for something and I am find with not understanding it to be honest! Some abbreviations are useful, but when we start using it on basically everything, it gets lost, for example AC, is that an air conditioning, is that Assasins Creed, is that Animal Crossing, etc.? who knows what a person means with that these days, so confusing!

I'm leveling up! :D

ooh, man! That would have been much better! 🤣

To be fair it's not them making up the terms, it's the corporations that create the platforms and giving it a "unique" name. It's just a matter of what social media/messaging platform is the popular one for your generation. MSN/mIRC era it was IM(goddamn, hadn't thought of that one in a long while), Facebook era was PM and now the "insta-kids" use DM as that's the abbreviations of the platforms they primarily used. No idea what TikTok uses but I think(?) it's still DM there so it's just a matter of what social media platform will replace Tiktok eventually and what will it call it.

Uprooting a language is one technique used in establishing control of a population. Relocate the people (e.g. from rural to urban environment), change their language (e.g. add new words and usage), destroy their education system (e.g. remove the study of history), shatter their social structure (e.g. separate the children from their parents), confuse them (e.g. make sure their sources of information are unreliable and full of falsehood), and isolate individuals (e.g. "every man for himself").

It all comes down to making "the old ways" unacceptable. Once the people have become docile sheep through having their "world" upended, they are much easier to control and manipulate. These methods have been effectively used to destroy entire cultures for thousands of years, and they continue to be used to this day. Anywhere you see children being taken away from their elders to be "reeducated," (e.g. "daycare," "public school," "after-school program") you should immediately realize what is actually happening.

That is, if you know your history....

YAY! I'm turning 16! 🤣

LoL!! and +1.

iiiiiiiiii aaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmm ssssssssssoooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy uuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnncccccccccclllllllllleeeeeeeeee

🤔 perhaps this is slower?

I_____
a_____m_____
s_____o_____r_____r_____y_____
u_____n_____c_____l_____e_____

Thank her on my behalf too 😊

All I can say is that I am old enough to be my daughters' grandfather.😱

Still remember the first time they addressed me as "mister" 😭

At least they don't get up (yet) to give me their seats on public rides 😅

Looking forward to attending driver's school in February (turning 43 then). Probably I should wear baggies and hoody.