Would you ever have thought, many years ago when we used to live in an offline world, that there would be one single word that we would be able to write to convey to other people that the nature of our intentions was harmless, kind, gentle, nice, sweet, even loving and above all non-hostile?
Stop right there and rewind. Why would we even be doing this in writing and not in speech? And did I say one single "word"?
Sometimes I wonder if we used to communicate in the past at all. We seem to do nothing else these days. When we're not busy talking on the phone, we're busy writing via some form of modern communication. In fact many of us seem to prefer the writing to the talking!
And lol, which was not even a word in the first place, has already had a change of meaning during its short lifetime. If you want to express laughing out loud these days, you need to write LOL!!! And just to make sure the other person got it, you sometimes need to add, I really did lol at that!
Lol beats everything, even the smiley :) :D :-)
As long as you attach lol to the end of your comment, be it on Facebook, Twitter, in an e-mail or in a text message to name a few modern methods of communication, you can basically write what you like. Lol diffuses any possibly hostile, unfriendly or ambiguous situation, renders any rude words harmless and even removes any serious undertones, making you sound laid back, cool, chilled and totally relaxed.
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