When laughter ain't funny (On LOL)
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queelezSo instead of having a long post about the semester in retrospect (Awesome with some really hard parts) and my general feelings towards half my friends graduating in a month (oh shit), we have... a post about a random pet peeve of mine. YAAAAAAY!
LOL. Ell oh ell. It's perhaps one of the most used and most known acronyms on the internet: Laughing out Loud. (Or, if you're my dad, Lots of Laughs). And y'know what? That's fine! Some things just really catch on. And, overrused as it may be, I've no objection to seeing it. I even succumb to the easy analogy now and again.
But. But. I use it when it's appropriate. When something is funny. When I would be, perhaps, laughing out loud.
I don't use it, say, like this.
Person A: Hello!
Person B: Hi.
Person A: How are you?
Person B: Good lol.
...What was funny about that? It was a basic question as to what your current status/general feelings are. There is no humor in it whatsoever.
The over-use of LOL, any sorts of laughter or 'happy' smiley faces really, really bugs me. And it's not just because it's annoying and out of place. But say, for instance, you're searching for RP. Say you shoot an idea to somebody. Saying "I don't like that idea" is a perfectly valid thing to say--perhaps a little bit blunt, yeah, but nothing too bad.
But saying "I don't like that idea lol" is different. To me, it means "you and your idea are so stupid/not interesting that it amuses me to even think about it." I mean, what? It's a bit mean, really, and I'm sick of seeing it.
So please, tell your friends. Tell your family. Raise awareness of LOL abuse.
LOL. Ell oh ell. It's perhaps one of the most used and most known acronyms on the internet: Laughing out Loud. (Or, if you're my dad, Lots of Laughs). And y'know what? That's fine! Some things just really catch on. And, overrused as it may be, I've no objection to seeing it. I even succumb to the easy analogy now and again.
But. But. I use it when it's appropriate. When something is funny. When I would be, perhaps, laughing out loud.
I don't use it, say, like this.
Person A: Hello!
Person B: Hi.
Person A: How are you?
Person B: Good lol.
...What was funny about that? It was a basic question as to what your current status/general feelings are. There is no humor in it whatsoever.
The over-use of LOL, any sorts of laughter or 'happy' smiley faces really, really bugs me. And it's not just because it's annoying and out of place. But say, for instance, you're searching for RP. Say you shoot an idea to somebody. Saying "I don't like that idea" is a perfectly valid thing to say--perhaps a little bit blunt, yeah, but nothing too bad.
But saying "I don't like that idea lol" is different. To me, it means "you and your idea are so stupid/not interesting that it amuses me to even think about it." I mean, what? It's a bit mean, really, and I'm sick of seeing it.
So please, tell your friends. Tell your family. Raise awareness of LOL abuse.
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Date: 2010-04-23 07:35 am (UTC)LOL has kind of grown on me, but only when spoken. It's better than when people type "ha" a bunch. How do you feel about *laughs*?
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Date: 2010-04-23 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-23 02:27 pm (UTC)Stay out of my journal porn collection. Be a pure snowflake.