Why do people at my school overuse the word "love"

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Honestly I see on Myspace at the end of many comments "haha lol love youXX" it's so irritating and silly. Why do neurotypicals always use this. Love, love, love.............it's a word much to overused

I do agree that's stupid, no idea why they do it though.

because it's cool. i too often wonder why. it's an attempt to be friendly, like when ppl made calling others by their first names popular. also greetings evolve. from "bye" to "love you". shallowness requires a facade too, unless i am very much mistaken.

I think that the word needs more of the word, love. It doesn't just belong in intimate relationships. I think that it's great, that friends of both genders love each other.

I don't see it much, but it's still irritating, it's a variation of goodbye now, although, I do hear it on the phone when people talk. I never use the phone, so it doesn't apply to me.

I'm rather formal too. A friend mentioned to me that I write emails formally. I just find formality so much more meaningful. It's also easier to think clearly that way esp when answering ppl's homework questions. Strangely enough I influenced an NT friend to write more formal emails too.

Yes it is, it also helps me to think clearly.

I think the real I'm so formal has something to do with the fact that I learned most of my language from books, not people.

It's a sign of affection. It doesn't necessarily refer to romantic love or familial love, but it can describe the feelings of attachment and affection associated with friendship. IMO, it doesn't cheapen the word to use it often, any more than it cheapens hugs to hug often.

I use the word love in my signature but... Well... I do love this forum... I think that love has so many tones (grades? shades? Pardon me, English is not my mother language)... I agree that it doesn't always mean a romantic feeling and is a sign of affection.

This reminds me of a quote from Idiocracy: "Welcome to Costco, I love you."

Their whole system of interaction is held together with illogical and shallow stuff like this. It's like social gravity, which as in the case of "real gravity if it were ever "switched off", would cause us to hurtle out into the vast voidyness of outer space.

Platonic love maybe? Or cognatic? <.<