Monday, September 14, 2009

Introductions are needed

Ahh! How the young have grown into some what adults. Today I got out of the house, and started looking with mother for courses for community college. I've grown up and no longer in high school! But all serious issues aside, I need to ask this question;

What's up with lol?

It seems people use it a lot. Do they use it because they're actually laughing or because they have nothing else to say? I personally never use it because it makes me feel like a bitch if I do. In my mind, I have to think about it, because what if the person on the other end of the computer conversation thinks the same way as I do?

(Internet conversation)
Frey*: Lol
Them (in their minds): Did they say lol because it's funny? Or is it because they have nothing else to say? Oh God what if I'm boring? I must be boring, I better be cooler in my next post!

Then it just starts to spiral out of control for so many reasons. Which the conversation either ends abruptly at "lol" or continues into awkward territory, sometimes both. 

Now, when I saw that my boyfriend, Alexander* (We'll come back to him later!), was using "lol" a lot in our MSN conversation, I asked him. "Do you use "lol" as a real laughter, or just because there's nothing else to say?"
I think his answer was better than most; "Because I find something funny."

I suppose I have to give him credit for this thoughtful reply, right? I think in the end I just don't like how "lol" works. It's too simple and short for something so complex. Can laughter be really shorten up into a three letter word? I guess in this day and age anything is possible. 

Maybe I'm just over thinking this as usual. I tend to do that a lot. If Alexander* read this, he would tell me I'm silly. I think, in one or another, I like being the silly complex one. 

More to come, Frey*.


* Names have been changed.

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