That is Not Funny. LOL

The texting phrase "LOL" (laughing out loud) has lost it's appeal. It has laughed it's way out of luster. It is so overused that younger generations believe it is a requirement at the end of a sentence, right after a period. Lol. It hardly holds any meaning anymore.

I find myself using LOL to death (see above). In fact, I use it so much that I annoy myself in the process. If you are anything like me you will find yourself using it in at least every other text, often times as one text message all by itself. And am I really laughing? Of course not, and certainly not out loud. I'm not even slightly amused most of the time. It is just a habit now. Lol. One that I cannot seem to break.

I believe the orignal theory behind adding LOL to a sentence was to prevent interpretation error. The horror of someone taking something we said in jest seriously is just too risky. So everyone just throws it out there. I wonder what the percentage of people who truly laugh out loud at a text is. It is so common now that unless you get a LMAO response, you can pretty much assume the person is not really laughing. Even with a full-on LMAO (laughing my a** off), your fellow texter probably only slightly chuckled under his breath.

Eventually LMAO will become a meaningless phrase as well and we will move on to using ROFLOL (Rolling on the floor laughing out loud) for every other text. And of course we will not be rolling on the floor overtaken by laughter (who does that anyway?) at everything our friend has to say. Has anyone really ever sent out a text message that was just that funny anyway?

We seem to do this a lot in society. Nothing is simple. We cannot just be content with life, we need to be happy, ecstatic actually. We expect every day to be similar to a day at Disney World and are continuously let down when it is not. We need to be satisfied with the fact that not every day is a party, to save those extraordinary days and feelings for those special times in life. Part of this is using words to convey our actual emotions. Maybe we could start by not trying to convince all of our friends that we are laughing out loud at everything they say.