Hey everyone! ^=? The Internet has become the breeding ground for new words, new knowledge. You may have seen and used things like LOL, OMG, BRB, TMI, ROFLMAO and so on. Hebrew is not immune to these changes. There is a slang that is growing fast online known as פקצית‎ "fakatsit" and used mainly by teen girls.

The three influences of this culture are:
    Japanese kawaii culture
    South American TV
    American youth culture

Well, they are used by these Hebrew youths and they also have their own way of
typing it up even on non-Hebrew keyboards. Ready to learn some of it?

Let's try this out. Let's take the word שלום. Looking at the chart above, you'll see that ש is W, ל is 5, ו is 1 and ם is N. So to say שלום in fakatsot, you would type N15W (or N!5W). Looks like a code, doesn't it? Remember, we're still typing these from right to left, as the actual language does.

How about Textspeak?

Now how about those famous abbreviations – LOL, OMG, ROFL, etc? Fakatsot has
them, too. Here are the most common ones:

Based on information from ZUBI! by Danny Ben Israel