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XD

Still better than spamming useless cancer emojis.

I'm so sorry for your loss lol

I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter

I am gen x and I regret that I once engaged in this. I am so very sorry.

Wish granted. Haha

Language habits always shift with generations. It’s interesting how small things like this become part of how people connect and express tone online.

It's a good tone indicator

I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.

It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.

I cannot unless I substitute in :)

I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

I literally can't stop myself lol

It's a problem lmao

How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.

Lol.

I use this too much lol

Well crap my username announces my age.

I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol

lol. lmao, even.

I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

lol, ok

I hear you.

Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.

If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.

If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.

There are more important things to worry about.

how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that

Sure lol

I've never heard anyone actually complain about this, lol.

Firmly Gen Y here and I use it all the damn time, but I blame that on computers not showing up until I was an awkward teen in high school and needed a neutral way to respond where people wouldn't think I was AFK. We didn't have ways to react to messages so lol and every varient (up to and including the roflcopter, lol) became our way to fill the silence. We were a generation that developed a way to communicate that you found annoying... just like every other generation, GenX gave us "Whatever" as the exclamation of frustrated, GenZ gave us stuff like "drip" for great fashion taste... GenY had a 9 key layout to type as we entered the workforce so we tried to keep it short.

I could never bring myself to do that, actually.

So I just ended up replacing it with an equally annoying onomatopoeic expression to end almost every sentence, haha

Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20's, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol

I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?

Watch Kirby dance haha lol

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How about this? Ü

It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol

I was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying "lol" quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it's a habit.
"Man, that sucks lol". They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn't realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it..

Okay rofl

Cry about it, lol.