Can we come up with an alternative to lol?

I just wish people would stop using it when they type something they think is funny. Use it when someone else types something that is funny.

An issue raised here many times over the years, starting perhaps with this in Jan., 2009, not that it changed anything.

http://www.fluther.com/31536/is-there-anything-that-lol-cant-mean-why-is-it-so/

I don’t see how an alternative would do anything but double the number of annoying repetitions we have to see.

Writers of genuine humor positively never have to tell us that they’re laughing while they’re writing. Even most comedians let their lines, their manner, and their delivery convey the humor. They don’t have to prompt us by holding up ”LAUGH” signs or laughing themselves.

When I notice that someone punctuates every post with “lol,” I stop reading that person’s posts.

lol

Okay in order to please @Jeruba and stop having to type that stupid “word” I officially declare I will no longer use lol except in texts to my parents. Because I don’t want to piss off my mother when she doesn’t realize I’m joking…

Wouldn’t it have been a pleasant surprise not to have had any lol pseudo-jokes here? And none to come?

lol no

If you’re only mildly amused, don’t lol. There’s a smiley for merely smiling.

@gailcalled, yes, but that’s too much to hope for. Scarcely a thread goes by in which someone doesn’t grab for the obvious one. Really the only variety you can expect in that regard is who gets there first.

I laugh a lot, so if I type “lol,” I’m actually laughing out loud. Maybe I laugh too much. Maybe I’m just too easily amused…

For when you’re just smiling, what about SAL = smiling a little? SLC = smiling like crazy? SMLO = smiling my lips off? Just a thought. I’m high on caffeine and sugar right now, though, so what do I know?

http://i.imgur.com/jw4OSxi.jpg

IJMMS (I just messed myself)

ILSHIABABVAWM

I’m laughing so hard I almost burst a blood vessel and wet myself.

I never lol; to me the best humor is subtle.

Ha! Ha!

No, I don’t like that, don’t like it at all. So, I guess the answer is no.

LOL

I don’t like it & never use it myself, it’s tolerable when used in response to a line someone found funny, but it just sounds fucking ridiculous when used in your own posts.
There are a couple of users here who do that with tedious regularity & I want to throw eggs at them, hard boiled.

@ucme Just don’t hit me in the eye. I wear contacts.

@WillWorkForChocolate Wasn’t aware you were guilty of this, certainly not on my radar.

Hi, I’m Abby and I’m a lol addict. <hangs head in shame>

It used to mean “little old lady.” I don’t think it’s going away as “laugh out loud.” It’s just lazy communicating.

@Sunny2 That is true! I recall the term “A LOL in NAD” which stood for “A Little Old Lady in No Apparent Distress” but I can’t remember where it was from. Something medical, a novel maybe or TV show?

@WillWorkForChocolate Me, too. It’s hard to show how hilarious you people are here sometimes. And frankly, I’m hilarious, too

@ucme Sorry – lol

@KNOWITALL If you’d read my answer properly, you should have noticed that what I was actually saying was that it only irritated me when people use it as a means of laughing at themselves. Responding to something they find funny in others is fine, so no need for an apology…insincere or otherwise.

Oh great, so now saying lol on the Internet diminishes my worth as a person.

Also, no. Lol.

Yes, yes it does.
Henceforth you shall now be considered a social reject & will be shunned by all right minded citizens…i’m sure you’ll feel right at home :)

People don’t reject me, I reject them. Also; lol.

lol

You just keep on telling yourself that…roflcopter.