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FYI is a common initialism of "For Your Information" and "For Your own interest".

• FYI, short for 'For Your Information', is commonly used in email or memo messages, typically as the first thing on the subject line, to flag the message as an informational message. This is typically used to mean 'For Your Information (Only)', alternatively stated as 'Info Only', with the intent to communicate to the receiver that 'action is not required'.
• On the Internet, FYIs are a subset of the RFC series.

The following description is taken from FYI 1, the FYI on FYIs: The FYI series of notes is designed to provide Internet users with a central repository of information about any topics which relate to the Internet. FYIs topics may range from historical memos on "Why it was done this way" to answers to commonly asked operational questions.

• FYI was also the name of a fictional newsmagazine on the television series Murphy Brown.
• FYI was also the name of a 1980s daily information program on ABC.
• Film Your Issue is an annual filmmaking competition.

See also

• BCP
• FAQ
• Fyg
• Internet slang
• Internet standard
• Request for Comments

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Initialism

FYI

1. For Your Information

Quotations

• 1948, "Don Burke, chief of TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau," Time , 14 Jun.,

  At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, LIFE Photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."

Usage notes

• Although its usage long predates the internet and text messaging, FYI is now probably used most frequently in electronic communications.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of fiy
• yif