I have to check my previous couple messages to make sure I didn't add "lol" at the end of them so I don't make it weird by saying lol too much
Lol
I'll stop doing this when we make a new punctuation that conveys my need for people to like me lol
We did, they're called emojis.
Gen z seems to have figured that out, too. They use emojis like punctuations, in much the same way we use lol. I was annoyed by it at first but I got used to.
I'm pretty sure Millennials never caught onto that because we either used emoticons, or were traumatized into thinking that emojis were somehow "girly". So the lol or lmao ended up being the way to show emotion/sentiment.
It was because there were all kinds of tacky and terrible looking emoticon packs back then, pretty much everyone agreed you looked like a dork. Nowadays they are used to produce shitposts.
Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.
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Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.
At least I think that’s what they did.
I use emojis when talking to specific people, lol with others and some I don't use any text slang at all.
Strangely because I grew up with lots of phpBB forums, the few of them that I still engage with for things like classic cars and farm talk I always use the emojis because that's what we always did :mrgreen:
What? Are we out of sync? As a millennial I use a lot of emoji, and gen z'ers almost don't use any, and tell me it's cringe to use them.
How else am i supposed to let people know im not being seriously serious? A fucking /s? Lame ass shit lol
I used to end every sentence with lol
I mean, I still do more often than I'd like to admit lol
Just modify your key bindings to enter lol every time you type any punctuation lol
lol, that's silly. I do it at the start so that I can punctuate with an ascii emoticon, even in forms of communication where it's not supported. ;)
I actually hate when i do an old school emoji and it 'cartoons' it. Im not against the 'pretty' emojis but i want what i want to be sent how i typed it.
Lol
I've literally been called out on using lol on Lemmy. Probably ~3 months back or so?
I forget how I responded, but it definitely would've had lol in it a few times just for emphasis.
Guys, we're on knockoff reddit, not a debate forum. Having a few lols when pointing out hypocrisy or incorrect shit with citations is just the creme of the lol crop.