It's almost rude not to bother spelling out three words with such unique acronyms. The time one person saves not typing an additional whopping 11 characters is wasted by the number of readers trying to figure out what it means
I don't know about rude, but AKA is a much better known phrase than IOW.
You obviously meant to say: "IAR not to bother spelling out three words...".
> with such unique acronyms
It's been part of netspeak since at least the late 80s