AFC

On rare occasions, your friends or co-workers might use AFC to say they're currently "away from computer." While you're not likely to encounter this acronym at all, you're most likely to come across it in an Away message, telling you that someone is not available to chat rn.

In most instances, however, those who are away from their computers instead use AFK (away from keyboard) to say so. AFK is such accepted shorthand for "not at my computer" that anyone who uses AFC instead likely doesn't know that AFK exists. (If that's the case, you should probably tell them about it.)

A gamer who tells you they're "going AFC" is setting down their controller and stepping away to take care of some IRL business. This acronym is a variant of the more-popular AFK, used only when playing a video game with a controller (on either a PC or gaming console).

Most likely, the player who sent you AFC will be back at their controller within a short period of time. (If you're lucky, they may have even said how long they'll be away.) In the meantime, you may want to go touch grass yourself.