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

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20 Apr 2012, 7:31 am

I use "lol" sometimes. I can see why you find it annoying, but it doesn't bother me anymore than other things people do I find annoying and I have a laundry list. I tend to get annoyed with people very easily. That's why I figure I am just not a people person. Never have been. Probably never will be.

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20 Apr 2012, 8:54 am

I only use it if I am "laughing out loud".

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20 Apr 2012, 9:03 am

Several years ago I asked someone what "lol" meant and he told me "lots of love". That is what I thought it meant until I realised that it means "laugh out loud". I think it is overused far too much.

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20 Apr 2012, 9:30 am

No it's not ''an autism thing''. I always write ''lol'' and it doesn't bother me. Let's not associate everything we think about as ''an autism thing''.

At first I didn't know what it meant. I thought it stood for ''lots of love''. I'm not very good with abbreviations/slang though. I even see all these random letters on WP and don't know what they mean, like, for example RTHJ (I just made that up, but the ones I see are just as random as the one I made up).

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20 Apr 2012, 9:58 am

Dots wrote:

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?

I have long hated that acronym and refuse to actually type it out.

I really hate it when some people use it almost as if its punctuation, ending multiple sentences with it.

People using it these days doesn't bother me as much as it used to, but I will not adopt it.

I don't think it's an autism thing.

As said earlier in this thread, there are people on this forum who use it. No one on this forum uses it in a way that bothers me. That probably means I've become a lot more tolerant over something as pointless as this (that is, being annoyed by it is pointless, not that people using it are being pointless).

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20 Apr 2012, 10:43 am

Apologies. I'm not saying "lol" is horrible and everyone who uses it must shut up. I use it occasionally when I'm actually laughing, though I prefer to type "ha ha".

What I'm mainly referring to is when people respond "lol" because they don't know what else to say. When I'm being weird but serious and don't know what it means that people are laughing at me.

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Dots, what would you like people to do instead if they feel uncomfortable?

I'd rather they ask me what I mean.

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20 Apr 2012, 10:54 am

I am loling at people not looking up loling or maybe aspies should use loll.

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20 Apr 2012, 10:55 am

I'll admit it's annoying but I'll also admit that I use it a lot. The reason I use it a lot is because it's hard to show emotion over the computer when you're talking to somebody and a lot of people use lol when they find something funny or it's something humour related. I try not to use it as much on certain websites or with certain people. Sometimes I'll go between lol and haha just so you don't count 100 lol's in my sentence. It's not so bad on this website because you have the little emoticon faces that you can use. Also, I'll admit that sometimes I'll have my messenger open and for example, if my friend is bothering me and she keeps sending You Tube links that I really don't feel like watching because I'm doing something else, I'll say lol just to humour her and let her think that I'm watching it. I know it's mean, but it's a way out for me.

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20 Apr 2012, 2:41 pm

Lol doesn't annoy me but I usually only use it if someone else does. I tend to write hehehe, I don't know why. I guess I think that hahaha is too much of a loud laugh and I'm usually just smiling or giggling or something. And my laugh out loud isn't often out loud in the first place. I laughed inside. But, I love Mwahahaha for my evil laugh.

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20 Apr 2012, 6:24 pm

edgewaters wrote:

Kinme wrote:

OJani wrote:

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.

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.

That's true. ^.^ And I haven't experienced this too often, but I'd probably react in a similar way, come to think of it.

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20 Apr 2012, 7:25 pm

Unfortunately there is no sense of tone in text. I see comments like 'lol' as the sign that something isn't to be taken as a serious comment ("I'm gonna tell your wife what happened in high school lol").

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21 Apr 2012, 1:06 am

I find it awkward to use. It would be good if there was a better alternative. It's probably more fluid than "I am currently mid laugh".

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21 Apr 2012, 3:59 am

lostgirl1986 wrote:

lol, actually.

(yes I'm mean, so don't be offended, sorry)

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21 Apr 2012, 12:24 pm

I'm sorry, but I'll dare to say that I have the impression that most of the people in this thread didn't understand the problem...

Dots wrote:

Oh yes, it always drives me crazy. Especially if I write something serious or, even worse, important and someone types LOL. Or posts a smiley. Or another meaningless conversation filler (I guess these fillers can vary with different languages). Luckily, I rarely interact with people who post LOL or smileys in reply to something not funny.

I'm pretty sure that it's not an autism thing because I saw many complaints about such kind of replies on the internet.

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21 Apr 2012, 1:25 pm

What about when you find something funny, when the other person does not?

Like don't be so serious. lol

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quotes- laugh a little, don't be so serious

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21 Apr 2012, 5:28 pm

I use it when I don't know what else to say.

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