"lol"... does it drive you crazy?

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20 Apr 2012, 2:03 am

I refuse to type "lol" unless I'm making fun of it, because, frankly, I'm not laughing out loud in most cases. "Heh" is my usual response for mere amusement, "HAHAHAHA" if I'm actually laughing.

Others using "lol" doesn't bother me much though.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:03 am

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I like "HAHAHAHAHAHA hahahahahahahahahaha." Because it is legit, yo.

i did lol when i read this.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:12 am

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Lul is my favorite, because of the lulz.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:13 am

hyperlexian wrote:

Kinme wrote:

I like "HAHAHAHAHAHA hahahahahahahahahaha." Because it is legit, yo.

i did lol when i read this.

... I aim to please.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:18 am

I type lol when I find something funny.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:37 am

I don't remember ever typing "lol". Well, at least I have typed it one time now...

OK, I'm not a native speaker, but even then, I feel so awkward using internet shorthands and smilies. This is why I type "..." so much...

I'm afraid I would come off even more awkward and inappropriate, hurting the other person's feelings... but, perhaps, instead of avoiding it, I have the opposite effect... never mind...

I wonder if bad childhood memories have something to do with my avoidance of exaggerated laughing symbols, including that three letters.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:43 am

OJani wrote:

Constant ellipses are awesome, in my opinion. I'd feel lost without them...

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20 Apr 2012, 2:51 am

I don't like 'lol' because it's overused. It never 'resonated' with me. I prefer, "AH Ha." The last letter is not capital to indicate the force of sound trails off.

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20 Apr 2012, 3:04 am

I hate when people use it every 2 mins... though I use it sometimes, because I don't know how to say I find something funny in other terms... obviously, there are smileys in forums and chat log, but does someone really like Skype smileys, for example ? ^_^

But yeah, I use it when I really find something funny (I mean "mentally" funny, which makes me smile or so, I rarely "laugh out loud" when i'm on the pc), not to say "okay, cool, it was a joke, I have to say I laugh even if I don't".

Also, I use a lot of "weird"smileys, but they are not expressive enough to say I really found it was funny, so I still using "lol".

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20 Apr 2012, 3:39 am

Kinme wrote:

OJani wrote:

Constant ellipses are awesome, in my opinion. I'd feel lost without them...

I use them quite a bit too. Most people aren't familiar with their proper use, though. Some people think it's grammatically incorrect to use them to indicate a trailing off into silence or an unfinished thought. It's not, an ellipsis is the correct way to indicate aposiopesis. Other times, I've been criticized when paraphrasing by people who use "(snip)" to paraphrase, being accused of trying to mislead, because they have no idea what either an ellipsis or a paraphrase is. So infuriating to be lectured by the ignorant. At least you get to embarass them as revenge.

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20 Apr 2012, 4:17 am

When chatting over the net "lol" is often essential to avoid confusion or offense.
My dry sense of humor is obvious face to face but if I call a friend an idiot in an email it could be misunderstood without the qualifying "lol".

Get it?

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20 Apr 2012, 4:24 am

piroflip wrote:

Last two words kind of highlight the point. I know you don't mean it this way but I keep picturing someone with a lead pipe and a menacing look when I hear "get it?"

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20 Apr 2012, 4:53 am

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I think this is autism related. I'm just wondering if anyone else finds people typing "lol" to be absolutely maddening.

Those three letters have no meaning to me. Yes, I know it stands for laughing out loud, and very occasionally I'll use it. But non-autistics on facebook seem to use it when they don't know what to say. I just posted some random thing about obsessively listening to a song so much that it sounds out of tune and someone replies with "lol".

Whenever I do something weird in an online conversation, like make things too serious or say something blunt or awkward, the other person responds with "lol".

It drives me nuts. Is it an autism thing, or is it caused by the fact that I'm 28 and go to university with 18 year olds?

The word is a lie - 99% of the time the person isn't laughing out loud, they are lying about it. Usually seeing someone use it unsarcastically lowers my opinion of them permanently.

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20 Apr 2012, 6:46 am

Nah, I use it quite often, so it doesn't bother me.

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20 Apr 2012, 7:00 am

My main problem with it is that it's redundant. By definition, a laugh is "out loud", not silent.

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20 Apr 2012, 7:24 am

I don't like it because many people overuse "lol", and it usually doesn't correspond to their actual reaction in real life. It is often used to say "I found this mildly amusing and it made me smile for a moment" or even "this is supposed to be a good-natured, cheerful statement", in which case a smiley would be more appropriate. So when they are actually laughing, they have to upgrade to "rofl" or "lmao". That doesn't leave anything in case they're really bursting with laughter, other than "I just spit my drink on the monitor". Which is probably the most overused lie on the internet.

"Lol" also annoys me because it's an abbreviation that is usually grammatically wrong or doesn't fit the context of the sentence if it is spelled out. "I so agree with you laughing out loud"... that's just weird Also, is there really anybody who would break into loud laughter after such a statement? Even if it does fit, the three letters completely fail to convey a sense of amusement, imho. Much unlike a smiley, an onomatopoeia like "hahaha", or an emote such as *laughs*.

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