Yes. So much so that I wrote a diatribe about it on one of gail’s questions, and own lol4rl.com. One of these days I’ll get around to putting the site up.
I’d try and find the original post, but it seems like everyone in the collective has taken to using it. * blush *.
Like it or not, it’s part of our internet vernacular now. I tend not to use textspeak unless it’s with someone who already uses it then I do as a means of communication and not in a vain effort to prove how |337 I am.
I like you’re guys responses but personally when people type ROFL I know they’re not really rolling on the floor laughing so I find it more appropriate to use socl… which means sitting on chair laughing
Over rated? It isn’t rated at all. I have NEVER used the expression and I have been using Usenet/internet since 1982 well before Tim Berners-Lee stuffed it up. Back when everything was Unix/CP/M and you wrote your own apps.
I use “lol” to indicate that certain things I said were intended as a joke or to be humorous because sometimes there are things that I say that without the “lol”, people might think I was being serious. I used to indicate that I’m not angry about something. And I also use it to indicate that something on the internet made me smile. So no, I find it most useful and I will continue to use it.
Well, I could just as well write “ha ha” or something else, but many times “lol” fits better. Maybe it’s a generation issue. Maybe some people are just a bit uptight about what should or shouldn’t be.
Ha, yeah it is overrated but before it was reallly bad.
Now people more or less just use it when they have nothign better to say or are trying to end a conversation. i know when im texting someone and im bored with them or dont want to talk i just say “lol” and thats that.
yes, but it conveys it’s meaning so well.
it’s quick.
it’s easy.
it means haha!
wait, we’re not talking about ‘oh my god, that was hilarious, thank you for sharing that really funny joke,’ are we? well, we really need an idiom for that.