FP
Flight path
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Favorite person
FP is slang shorthand primarily used in online communities discussing borderline personality disorder (BPD). While FP is not a clinical diagnosis or official BPD terminology, it describes someone to whom a person with BPD develops an especially intense attachment and may rely heavily for emotional support, reassurance, or validation. An FP can be a friend, romantic partner, family member, or even another trusted person, so it means more than simply having a favorite friend.
No single person is known to have created FP. It largely developed organically within online BPD communities, with evidence of its use on Tumblr by the 2010s, before becoming more widely recognized across social media and mental health discussions.
Today, people in BPD communities and others discussing mental health may use FP as a quick way to describe this particularly intense relationship dynamic. However, not everyone with BPD has an FP, and the term is also sometimes used more casually online outside of its BPD-specific meaning.
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Are you financially literate?
World of Warcraft (WoW) players use FP as shorthand for flight path. A flight path is a means by which players can quickly fly between areas within Azeroth and Outland. To unlock flight paths, players must find flight masters - NPCs who man the points at which flight paths begin and end.
To use a flight path, players must first unlock the end point of that path (by finding the associated flight master). Then, they can fly to that point from any other flight point on the same continent. The mounts that players fly upon travel roughly 4.3 times faster than players' running speed, making flight paths a much speedier mode of transit.