lol Infection
I was talking with a prospective new writer for the site tonight when I noticed; I tend to add the acronym of lol after every sentence, sometimes at the beginning and if I really did laugh out loud twice. I have LOL, I know! The Doctor said it's incurable. Like smoking, ridiculously hard to kick this habit. I feel like this is a typing virus that has some how taken my IMing by storm. Do any of use really lol when we write lol. Now we have other terms to show just how funny things are like ROFL or LMAO. Both of these equally not done in truth. When I watch a video that makes me laugh a lot I don't usually roll on the floor laughing.
Now as a person that prides himself on always telling the truth I have found this little acronym has me lieing more than those little acknowledgments of reading at the end of legal gibber jabber you have to click to accept new software. Yeah no one reads those yet we always click and go. Some of those probably have clauses that have allowed corporations to buy our souls. Seriously, if I was Satan I would put a clause in the Apple Updates for IPOD's that specifically asked if I could own your soul. I could get the souls of billions of humans in one click. I digress.
These acronyms we us in Texting, IMing, or any internet, writing have turned us all into type zombies. Just think of the space we could save on twitter if we just stopped using them. You could probably get in a whole word more. More importantly, it would make room for punctuation something that Twitter has destroyed. So next time you are LOLing stop and think did I really LOL or should I have saved that for a really funny moment. You are wasting the good LOL's for times that don't really deserve them.
Tell Jordan how much you LOOVEEDD his article on twitter here.