to think that LOL is irritatingly overused

[ParanoidAtAllTimes]

Surely it is only relevant when something actually makes you laugh out loud? I've noticed on facebook that people seem to punctuate their sentences with lol, e.g. 'went into town today but it was raining lol. Was well busy so I came home lol. Now kids are in bed and I have a headache so I'm getting an early night lol'

I visulise these people having conversations peppered with 'Lol'

My 1st AIBU- I thought I'd start small

Someone who was actually complimenting us on our webchat with David Cameron said that the webchat contained "several lollivers". This was a new one on me but it was a compliment so I decided it was a good thing.

But generally of course YANBU. I have a friend who's always emailing me with "lol lol lol" attached to things which aren't remotely laugh-worthy. Agree with an earlier poster, much as I love her it makes her sound deranged...

I do use it, but at the start of a sentence to denote that I found something very funny. Never use it at the end of sentences lol.

I received a letter from my lovely SIL last year and she had lots of lol and txt speak in her letter. Oh, dear.

txt spk ltr, omg, MmeLindt! xxx

Since the written word (esp at the rate of chat, text, etc) can be misinterpreted through lack of tone, smileys & lols are a necessary evil.

Some of us NEED to be fluent in txt spk otherwise we'd have no bloody idea what our DC were up to! Show a little mercy if it spills over into our own vocabulary, we're only human!

What's even worse than all the lolling is that the other day I was having a conversation and didn't know what to say/had no comment to make, so I actually said 'biscuit'. I really must stop MNing so much.

My children never use txt spk. It's a matter of honour. My friend, who has no children, sends me messages that make fuckall sense and which I have been known to return marked "please send in a comprehensible format". I wouldn't mind if it wasn't that she's a librarian and majorly pedantic about everything else.

Actually, I lie. I object to txt almost more than I abhor 'lol'.

I prefer to PMSL than LOL but each to their own!!

YANBU. It's not a fucking punctuation mark.

LeQueen, me too! And the funny thing is, I know people get really irritated by my long, exquisitely-constructed texts ...

you bunch of miseries

lol

YANBU. I hate it when people do that. Even my lovely SIL does it and it does my head in. This overuse means that you can't use it in situations when you have genuinely loled, as then you worry people will think you're daft.

I also always fully punctuate sentences and use full words when writing texts. Unless VERY short on space.

And another thing - PMSL is technically incorrect, as My and Self aren't two words in this context.

I know, I know, I'm going now.

I like acronyms that aren't. FUCKWIT, for example.

Iin real life I only laugh out loud when I an nervous so all this use of LOL unsettles me a bit

I use lol, pmsl, rofl, lmao and emoticons.

I may not actually be doing these, but it highlights that I find something amusing.

I hate text speak. I can decipher it, but cannot compose it myself.

It's just the current way of expressing ourselves. Keep up with the times! lol

Keep up with the farkin' times?
Forsooth, if this means speaking in Electric English then I'm happy to be a reactionary.
Oddsboddikins!

Hahaha!! (Oh, actually, that is my most overused)

Quite right, Pikelit.

Verily, I did slap my thigh in merriment.

Indeed, madam, my stays were stretched almost to bursting point.

LeQueen, I think lol actually sums up my reaction to that post quite succinctly!

WTF? U ppl r srsly lala, lol!