Not Safe For Work (also Not Suitable for Work) (NSFW) is an Internet acronym used in e-mail headers, short messages or in interactive discussion areas (such as chatrooms and blogs) to identify URLs or hyperlinks that may be contain audio, graphic, photographic or video materials that contains profanity, nudity or other potentially objectionable content. It warns the reader so he/she can avoid being exposed to content that may be objectionable or avoid viewing/listening to it in a place where it may lead to embarrassment or punishment.
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| - Not Safe For Work (also Not Suitable for Work) (NSFW) is an Internet acronym used in e-mail headers, short messages or in interactive discussion areas (such as chatrooms and blogs) to identify URLs or hyperlinks that may be contain audio, graphic, photographic or video materials that contains profanity, nudity or other potentially objectionable content. It warns the reader so he/she can avoid being exposed to content that may be objectionable or avoid viewing/listening to it in a place where it may lead to embarrassment or punishment.
- A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at porn. Anything with nudity in it at all will usually often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply thinks you might be looking at porn. Just in case you are still not clear on what this means, go to this page when you have privacy. Then ask yourself, do you really want your boss in the room when you're looking at that stuff?
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| - Not Safe For Work (also Not Suitable for Work) (NSFW) is an Internet acronym used in e-mail headers, short messages or in interactive discussion areas (such as chatrooms and blogs) to identify URLs or hyperlinks that may be contain audio, graphic, photographic or video materials that contains profanity, nudity or other potentially objectionable content. It warns the reader so he/she can avoid being exposed to content that may be objectionable or avoid viewing/listening to it in a place where it may lead to embarrassment or punishment.
- A common internet warning, usually denoting a picture or video that you wouldn't want to show up when you are surfing the web at work. It's one thing to just look up the latest news or check your email. It's another to be looking at porn. Anything with nudity in it at all will usually often get labeled thus, on the off chance that a passing observer simply thinks you might be looking at porn. So called because if you are caught reading a page that is Not Safe for Work at work, you can get fired. For the more graphic NSFW pages, even having them in the hard drive or cache of a work computer can get you fired. Even showing up in the server log files could be unhealthy. Also applies to school, of course. Usually even being caught simply going to sites like YouTube or Facebook can get you in pretty big trouble there; being caught looking at anything "pornographic" will guarantee a trip to the vice principal's office, plus several detentions, or a suspension, or something similar. Also particularly helpful to parents who are at home - believe it or not, some people on the Internet do have small children and still find time to netsurf. These same people like to have a warning to wait until the children are in another room before clicking a link. NSFW can be applied to vulgar or violent, as well as pornographic, content. Also applied as a near-synonym for Squick. It may also be applied if the link requires sound, as not a lot of people have headphones at work (or should be wearing headphones, depending on the job). Just in case you are still not clear on what this means, go to this page when you have privacy. Then ask yourself, do you really want your boss in the room when you're looking at that stuff? Incidentally, get back to work before your boss notices you slacking off by browsing this site. Probably provides the title for a new TruTV series debuting in April 2012.
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