to be pissed off with pupils using web acronyms orally in real life?

[MNHubbie]

As it says in the title.

Look I am web-savvy I'm in my mid 30s and as I tell the kids at school it is my generation and the one before that came up with the likes of LOL, ROTFLMAO and so forth. OMG I'm just not fazed by it and IMHO I think the usual acronyms are useful and have their place. TBH I use them less and less of late as I can type at a decent rate on the laptop and can afford linked texts on the phone.

All that said AIBU to think it is an EPIC FAIL to say "LOL", "OMG" and "TBH" in real life?

OMG and TBH do make some sense one was used heavily in US film and TV fiction and if you post your opinion a lot you'd get used to saying TBH TBH but the one that REALLY bugs me is LOL! I use LOL a lot online, it nicely indicates whether or not you are serious etc but in real life you can f$$king smile or laugh!

So AIBU?

And don't even get me started on their coursework...

pmsl @ soz I h8 tht 2.

I have no problem with teenagers talking like that ..its what they do ..its what we did

asss loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg as theyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy don'ttttttttttttttttt startttttttttttt talkinggg like thisssssssssssss..

i don't really mind

I didn't! There was only really Usenet when I was their age and I didn't have access to it and no texting as only Yuppies had mobiles.

We just said things like Yo! and Cool! and Bad! When I got to Uni the internet was taking off (I remember with excitement seeing the Cambridge Uni coffee pot filling up on an online streaming video (the first of its kind that there was in any mainstream way)) and a lot of the abbreviations weren't just due to cutting down typing but because the connection was so slow and unreliable you wanted to limit the text you wrote. Similarly Texts cost so much to us poor students we started txtspk but I was no teen by then tbh.

Epic Fail and Fail have a variety of uses on the web. Some people use it as a simple tag on top of photos of people failing, mucking up or otherwise doing something unwise. It was used before the mass sharing of photos in local network gaming and later online gaming and MMPOG etc as a chant to co-players who mucked up royally.

Some of my very geeky kids have started to use "Owned" and its more geeky cousin "Pwned" in class too but that doesn't bother me so much as it is usually used in the context of: "Sir just pwned you big time!" when I've been especially cutting with a comeback.

What I mean is all generations of teenagers have their own language ...I rather like epic fail I have a 17 year old so I'm used to the lols,cbas,and pwned

Fair 'nuff. Context rules - therefore YANBU.

(This morning I just managed to stop myself saying "yanboo" to a friend relating a tale of woe LOL)

I used rofl in a text to my sister recently to see if she was a mumsnetter too ... she clearly is not ...

rofl etc aren't mumsnet acronyms, they're general internet/text acronyms you'll find on any site.

True however LOL replaces actually smiling or laughing (same with ROFL etc) rather than replacing a long bunch of French words...

pmsl @ yanboo