LOL: The catch all response. Explanation via text or
other media that it was a joke. Filler of awkward silences. Cultural icon.
You are
annoying. We know most of the time, people are lying when they use you. We also
all know that one person who feels the need to work you into almost every
text message they send. Now you have become a response to non-funny things. Your
only function is to make sure someone can actually have the last
"word," NOT to express humor. The cultural icon of LOL you
have made your way into memes and more, with entire websites
devoted to LOL cats and the like. How far the mighty have fallen!
Okay. I'm
done with that. Seriously though, are we incapable of creating a response that
contains a subject and a verb? Not in shorthand? I think half of it is
laziness, and the other half is a combination of social norms and habit. How it
got to be a habit is a completely different story... I don't think it was clever
when it first started, and it certainly hasn't gotten any better with age.
Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with it.
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