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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:25 AM Jun 2014

According to the FBI, Web Slang Is ‘NIFOC’

http://watchingamerica.com/News/241023/according-to-the-fbi-web-slang-is-nifoc/

The FBI has compiled a glossary of web slang for its agents. A commendable effort … if it didn’t result in a list of, at times, surrealist terms.

According to the FBI, Web Slang Is ‘NIFOC’
L'Express, France
By Marie Simon
Translated By Clare Durif
19 June 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer

The FBI has compiled an (at times absurd) glossary of web slang in order to help its agents to browse social networks ... and speak with their grandchildren.

You are doubtless familiar with LOL, MDR or WTF. But have you already come across an ALOTBSOL, a BFFLTDDUP, a DILLIGAD or a SYWISY? The FBI is crazy about them. These abstruse terms are acronyms used by Internet users, and are part of a list of “web slang” that FBI agents are requested to know, a list which, according to The Washington Post, is as “hilarious” as it is “frightening.”

It has been made public by a collaborative website, Muckrock.com, through a freedom of information request to the FBI. This surreal glossary contains some 3,000 entries listed on 83 pages, which will be of use to FBI agents in their professional use of social networks ... “but also for keeping up with their children or grandchildren.” American taxpayers will be delighted to hear that, when the simple consultation of a site such as www.internetslang.com would have sufficed.

The FBI therefore appears convinced that in order to fight crime in the United States on a federal scale, it is vital to be able to identify a dangerous ALOTBSOL (“always look on the bright side of life”), a mysterious BFFLUDDUP ("best friend for life until death do us part&quot , a DILLIGAD threat ("does it look like I give a damn?&quot or a dissonant SYWISY ("see you when I see you&quot .
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According to the FBI, Web Slang Is ‘NIFOC’ (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP
Yep - sounds like the FBI JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #1
Shout out to all the FBI DUers and FBI DU viewers. merrily Jun 2014 #2
A few more for the FBIbbers: unhappycamper Jun 2014 #3
TALTVKOYTFBIAYCYMBARP merrily Jun 2014 #5
They probably could have just googled acronyms they didn't recognize. merrily Jun 2014 #4
FUBAR n/t unhappycamper Jun 2014 #6
How handy is that? pipoman Jun 2014 #7
Why do you hate America so much? merrily Jun 2014 #8
Nope-Not everyone fredamae Jun 2014 #9
For those who can't use google. Downwinder Jun 2014 #10

JustAnotherGen

(31,631 posts)
1. Yep - sounds like the FBI
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:30 AM
Jun 2014

Could have consulted a web site and instead chose to build their list from the ground up! *smh* LOL! YOLO!

merrily

(45,251 posts)
2. Shout out to all the FBI DUers and FBI DU viewers.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:34 AM
Jun 2014

I am to the left of Hillary and Obama. If I had been around in the 1930s, I may have wondered now and again if FDR wasn't maybe going a hair too far with all that recovery stuff. But, by the time I was old enough to learn about him, he looked pretty good to me, in hindsight, though heinous on internment and nothing to brag about on civil rights, to say the least--though Eleanor was better.

Anyway, I understand my political position, namely, left of center right New Democrats, makes me the worst possible enemy of Republicans, Democrats and the United States in general. Maybe the world. So, if you'd like me to turn myself in, just pm me.

WYSIWYG

You're welcome.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
5. TALTVKOYTFBIAYCYMBARP
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:01 AM
Jun 2014

Thanks a lot. That's very kind of you. The Federal Bureau of Investigation appreciates your contribution. You must be a real patriot.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
4. They probably could have just googled acronyms they didn't recognize.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:59 AM
Jun 2014

That's what I do.

Sometimes, it's a government agency. Sometimes I get the Urban Dictionary. It never takes more than a second or two.

What am I thinking, though? That would have cost nothing.

Anyone want to start a pool on what this cost us?

SNAFU

 

pipoman

(16,038 posts)
7. How handy is that?
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:20 AM
Jun 2014

All they need to do is carry around the 83 page book with their iPhone. Leave it to the government to find a way to spend money going backwards.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)
9. Nope-Not everyone
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:36 AM
Jun 2014

is familiar---Sorry, I am "embarrassed" that I have to ask--what is "MDR"?
I just did a quick search and couldn't find it's meaning....

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