CTTO?
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
July 11, 2018 11:17pm CST
I think most of us have accounts on Facebook.
I am still so naive of this social medium site that I ask from my son or my brother about some things that I read on Facebook. One term that I find intriguing is this: CTTO.
CTTO-- when I saw this acronym at the bottom of a picture, I really wanted to ask the person who posted the picture about what the letters mean. Even the letters DP, I just knew the meaning of this last month.
CTTO, I understand, means Credits To The Owner. It is the abbreviated way of acknowledging who owns the photo used in the post. I searched this on Facebook too.
The DP, I had to Google it and it means Display Picture, or the Profile Picture that we know.
With the CTTO and the DP, I still wonder what other acronyms are used in the social media sites.
Can you share some more? Thank you.
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13 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
12 Jul 18
I am the GTG, BRB, LYLAS, LYLAB, TTYl, TTYS, and TTFN generation.
I am not sure if they are even still being used today.
I didn't know what SMH meant for the longest time either.
GTG is Got to go, BRB is be right back, LYLAS and LYLAB are Love you like a sister or brother. TTYL is talk to you later, TTYS is talk to you soon and TTFN is ta ta for now.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
oh yes, i also read about that SMH. what does this mean? is it a cuss? or a rant?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
12 Jul 18
@ridingbet So many acronyms for things now it's crazy.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
when i was still the head nurse, the administrator of the hospital often used the letters HHWW which i later on knew it meant "holding hands while walking". 
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@neelia_lyn (2003)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
and there's IDK (i don't know), SKL. What's skl, by the way? 
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@neelia_lyn (2003)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
@ridingbet Oh i see. I've been seeing it on fb, now I know. Thanks
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@LadyDuck (471969)
• Switzerland
12 Jul 18
@ridingbet ROFL is one of the most common.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
wow, so nice of you to know what SMH means. now, i can read comments or posts on FB with those acronyms.
the ROFL, i know that already.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
@LadyDuck right, but in bubblews, i learned about ROFLMFAO. it means "rolling on the floor laughing my f_ _king as_ off".
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
yes, and these abbreviations are known by us, the not very 'millenials'.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
@ridingbet I thought ofc is short for 'office'. hehe
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
how about the term of addressing a male friend? the BRUH? hahaha. or is that BRU? (as in BRUHA?)
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
@sol_cee hahaha. yes, but i think the BRUH is pronounced as BRAH. i heard that from the teleseries "Ikaw lang ang Iibigin" where one friend of Gerald calls him BRUH.
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@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
Those acronyms were actually started as a hashtag on twitter and instagram and it never existed in facebook before. Twitter, because it's a microblogging site before but now they have removed the limit in characters. Instagram, before it was owned by facebook, uses this acronym hashtags so they would appear on other people's feeds and easier to find.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
oh, i get it. so it all started on Instagram with the hashtag before the acronym. i did not even know about that.
ahh. that is why my kid brother and other former students now my colleagues, would put the word after the sign of the hashtag, was because these could be found on Instagram?!
thanks for enlightening.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
yes, i know those acronyms before already. what i mean is the latest acronyms used now.
BRB---be right back.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
12 Jul 18
first time heard of ccto. I did a post long ago on acronyms but don't know how to post the link
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
yes i really wondered what CTTO means. it is credits to the owner. 
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@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
hahaha funny how i came across with these words too and got confused what do they mean. Millennial's nowadays really has an incredible mind to came up with new words.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
yes that is true.but wait when the millenials will already be the past. i think there will be another term for people born in this lew generation.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
sometimes, we have to learn somthing about these acronyms so we son't be left behind.
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
12 Jul 18
I only know, BTW, OTW, ASAP,and OOTD. I forgot the other acronyms. He he!!
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jul 18
if one is well-versed with being on FB hija, i think you can learn much as well.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
13 Jul 18
@Jessabuma therefore, you don't text message, right? you text the whole word and not shorten it?
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
12 Jul 18
@ridingbet yes that's right po. I am not that active there so I'm not really good at it
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