Most journalists use acronyms ... its part of the job. Usually it starts with FYI: for your information. "I'm letting you know this upfront, so we can start from a similar vantage point and then go on from there." Time Magazine's house organ was titled 'FYI', the source for rentals and sale listings as well as articles about the many companies under the Time Inc. corporate umbrella.

When writing a story for the magazines, most writers and researchers would liberally sprinkle 'TKs' in the text, meaning 'to come.' In other words, a fact, a missing component or source identification would be addressed later, after the story was moved on to the senior editor, top editor, reporter-researcher in charge of checking the story. The process would reverse, starting up the ladder once more to the writer, senior editor, after the researcher added comments and corrections from correspondents in the field. Finally the copy editors were assigned the story for their thorough laying-on-of-hands.

The top editor of one of the sections I worked for longest, Karsten Prager, would look it over one last time, usually between midnight and three ayem at the end of the edit week before handing it back to me, as the International Editions' Head Reporter-Researcher, to make his final changes.

Today acronyms are used consistently in text messaging and some of them are quite interesting, as defined by Netlingo.com, The Top 50 Internet Acronyms and Text Message Shorthand Every Parent Should Know. One of the least sexually-related acronyms, for example, is PAW: Parents are watching

There are additional links that are pertinent for parents and the general texting public: 50 More Internet Acronyms Parents Need to Know NetLingo List of Acronyms and Text Message Shorthand