OMG, that's so last year

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OMG I'VE PML - the cool kids don't LOL any more.

Some of the most recognisable texting language is falling out of favour.

Social media expert Laurel Papworth said it was out of fashion to use the term LOL (laugh out loud).

The new more popular term was PML (pissed myself laughing).

Instant messaging terms like BRB (be right back) were old news and this one has been replaced with BFN (bye for now).

"I can tell someone's age from their internet talk," Papworth said.

Twitter users had only 140 characters or less so users had created new phrases.

Social media user Courtney Sit, 23, of Auckland, said she had stopped using LOL because too many people were saying it. She had noticed acronyms becoming ruder with the F word in many phrases. "Instead of saying OMG for oh my God, it's more common for people to put an F in and write OMFG," she said.

Acronyms were becoming more obscure with the addition of phrases like GMTA (great minds think alike), TUVM (thank you very much) and WUU2 (what you up to).

Social media commentator David Seaman has said Twitter is causing "brain damage".

"Basically, Twitter has some good uses, but it's making us all a bit stupider," he said.

Another social media commentator, Simon Young, said acronyms in everyday speech was not new. "If you go back to your grandparents' generation when military service was compulsory, men learned morse code and used acronyms like AFAL for anything for a laugh," he said.