lol this is a blog post about a HMB lens lol

I think anyone has spent enough time on the internet has thought to themselves “self, why da eff does everyone use LOL when they aren’t actually laughing out loud?” And, in the end, we don’t know. But we keep on doing it.

Well, I am super smart, and I do know why we do it. We do it because that’s what everyone else does.

See, I told you I was super smart. But really, what happens, and I think we all know it, is that we redefine what words mean. LOL at one point meant Laugh Out Loud. Now it’s the digital equivalent to saying “heh.” But that’s cool, word definitions change over time.

When someone says rofl (rolling on the floor laughing) they certainly don’t mean that literally, but it does tell the person that what they just said was a lot more funny and deserved more than a LOL. So we have created this whole system for letting people know how funny what they just said was. “I just farted” might get a lol from me. “I just farted while being yelled at by my wife” will probably get me to drop a ROFL. “I just farted in my bosses office and shut the door behind me, and as I was walking down the hall I heard him break down into tears screaming “WHY GOD, WHY DO YOU HATE ME!?!?!” might get a LOLOLOLROFLOLOLMAOLOL OMG LOL from me.

So, I don’t have a problem with LOL not meaning laughing out loud. I’ve adjusted. But, I do have pet peeves. A lot of people, usually out of a lack of self confidence put lol at the end of a statement to, I assume, give them self distance from it’s content. So if we don’t like what they are saying the LOL makes it ok, because he didn’t really mean it. Or, they just can’t talk about stuff without laughing. I dunno, but it drives me crazy. Stuff like this:

Mort: Hey Flipflap, how have you been?

Flipflap: lol I’ve been good

Mort: Cool what have you been up to?

Flipflap: lol not much, working alot lol

Mort: Hey guess what, I have cancer and I’m gonna die in 6 months.

Flipflap: lol that sucks dude. My dad had cancer lol. I hope you can beat it lol good luck lol.

ARGHHHHHHHH! Why do people do that?!?!?! It drives me so effing insane. I hate it.

But, when it comes down to saying lol to note that you are moderately amused by something someone said, I personally don’t give a shit. Do you? I certainly wouldn’t hold it against anyone who did.

Fefe, who is another in a long list of prolific lensmasters, has posed the question to the HMB community. It’s gotten a bit of traffic so far, lets help push it over the top. Because lol is serious business, and we need to set the record straight once and for all on how it should be used.