Lol

‘Ha!’ Seems to have replaced lol

I’ve always been a baby boomer, and I was born in 1959. That’s why the pensionable population just keeps going up, but our pensions haven’t!

I use it if I'm laughing at myself but not to mock others. I thought it meant lots of love until I was told it meant laugh out loud. Textspeak can never really convey all messages or intentions.

I use it sometimes as do a lot of other people I know. There are worse I think.

I don't understand why some people online use 'lol' when they've said something not remotely funny, often something quite upsetting about their own life.

My DD & I use text speak for fun - it's actually sometimes more bother than writing normally.

I like emojis - did you spot that?

DotMH1901 Baby boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964.

Really don't mind it. My daughter has has a masters degree, is not crass and it a very respected writer in her field. She sometimes uses LOL in her texts. Why does it bother people.

Oh fgs (for goodness sake) it's just used for speed. I've np ( no problem) with shortcuts. We use them all the time on GN( Gransnet.) eg YABU, DiL etc.
However I am a bit disgusted with PMSL. just vulgar imo ( in my opinion) ? and words like guys and hun. My stepson refers to my husband and I as "you guys" aah! Grr!

I've never thought to be offended by lol but I've never heard of TU or TU4

Haven’t read all of this thread but so many abbreviations have passed me by completely. I do recognise and use some but there are times I just can’t be bothered to look up the meaning. Maybe sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Well, I wonder how many people I have alienated! I use it when somebody sends me something funny and I haven't time to type much. I use it when I want to show I am attempting to be funny about something so it doesn't cause offence. Now it turns out that I have been being offensive. Lol.

I wrote a letter to my sister, who is not into computers. She complained that I was writing to her in French ? I told her I would never do that and she replied why did you put TU in your last letter? I told her it meant Thank You not you in French. She had never heard of TU before and I told her many people write TU4. She was unimpressed. She is one of these dinosaurs who fights against anything modern.

I don't like 'Whatever' or the silly 'lol' that seems to be stuck on the end of every utterance, and I truly think they are all symptomatic of the dearth of good manners. Re reading that I sound like a mixture of Mary Whitehouse, Jayne Austen and a 1950s vinegar faced lady in a duster coat and petalled hat - but i don't care!

Oh I can’t stand, Bae, Hun.You guys.Babe,baby boomer drives me mad, but do use lol as laugh out loud, but do prefer the laughing emoji.

Okay Boomer must be an American expression? My grandson said it to me yesterday and I told him I was not a part of the Baby Boomer generation, that only people born between 1945 and 1949 qualify for that title here in the UK. By 1950 the birth rate in the UK had started to drop again and stayed that way until the mid 1960's when it rose again, peaking in the early 1970's. I know that statistics in the USA show a different pattern, their Baby Boom continued well into the 1960 before it started to drop back again.

‘You Guys’...........hate it when DH and myself are referred to by that Yank-ism. Even had to correct DD recently when she texted asking our opinion on something. It’s not been used by her since! So disrespectful, what’s wrong with ‘both of you’ etc. Rant over!

lol - laughing out loud / lots of love

The fact that people use this for two completely different meanings is enough for me never to use it

Like annepl, I was confused as to what was actually offending you. Reading the other posts, it seems to be “ lol”. How did the rest of you know what annsixty meant, when annepl and I missed it. Perhaps it’s our I-pads annepl! Anyway, the phrase doesn’t bother me. There’s loads of things that can be meant in a demeaning manner, just ignore them.

Since I sent an emoji of a fried egg, (under the impression it was a birthday cake) attached to a birthday text I use words.
So much easier, don't you think?

When I feel that I’m being ridiculed, I put on my Maggie Smith’ persona as the Dowager in Downton Abbey. I even memorised some of her lines. I hate being patronised though, worse than being outright insulted.

Lol I don't see it as an offensive term. It's like an instruction to let you know that comment isn't to be taken seriously- it's a flippant comment although easier to use the laughing emoji.

The term I don't like is PMSL which means Peed myself laughing - which is unintelligent in my eyes.

Thank you, annsixty.

I think most of these terms, abbreviations etc are rude, self indulgent and lazy. It is also undermining our individual cultures, no matter what our nationality. So we should stamp on it whenever or wherever it arises even if we appear to be from a different age; at least we will retain our individuality

I use LOL. I often use it at the end, or somewhere in the middle of a text or other message to indicate that something is not serious, it's all too easy to misconstrue the meaning of a message and people can and do take things the wrong way, you can't see a facial expression, or hear a tone of voice to tell whether someone is cross or upset, so LOL is used quite often

Its often used on Facebook in a sarcastic ridiculing way. I don’t like it.