I'm confident that this is not why I say 'haha'. 'LOL' or 'lol' sounds sarcastic or at-best ironic to me. Certain people I know still use it at the end of sentences, but I (without meaning to) find it childish.
I've never used LOL. Most of all because it sounds sarcastic and I can think of better ways to sound sarcastic than using LOL. Since 20 years ago when I started communicating over the Internet I've been using the standard smiley, which is pretty old [1] and sometimes "haaaaahahahahahaha" to denote extreme laughter :-)
I never knew that people would consider ":-)" as laughing. For me it's just a smile, in the literal sense. And if I say something funny and you just smile I'd consider it a "that wasn't really funny, idiot" rather than a laugh. But good to know people think that way about that emoticon.
Well, in online conversations I don't really laugh as I don't find anything to be that funny. Actually judging by my online conversations on Facebook with those new emoticons, it seems to me that everybody online has lots of laughs, crawling over the floor, pissing themselves and I'm wondering what I'm missing, or what are those people smoking. But don't worry, as if I :-), that's not a pity laugh or sarcasm.
My wife and her Thai friends frequently use "555" (the Thai word for "5" being "ha"). It's a nice cross-over between the two languages, and of course quite easy to type.
Maybe "new internet people" or "normal people" don't even know "lol" anymore. Back in the days we spend our youth in IRC or bbs where these abbreviations were common. But nowadays people connect with people they already know in real life on facebook and talk with them like they would in real life. (to a certain degree ;-) )
Depends on people's language I think. For me (German) "hhhh" sounds in my head like two dogs doing it, which might also be fun, but in a different way. But in fact there are many countries where they write "hhh" for laughing, so you're not alone.
At first I was surprised, but it's true. I saw a person writing "lol" a few days ago and it was really strange to read that nowadays. I thought that it is due to my increasing age, though. Didn't know the whole world stopped lolling.
Just anecdotally, many people I know never really used "LOL" unless we were being sarcastic. It always reminded me of the early/mid 90's when "The Internet!" started getting a lot of press and there were articles all over the place (in print, natch) about how to talk in "internet speak".
They'd list all of these abbreviations like "LOL" and "ROFL" among others that struck us, as likely dickish teenagers who considered ourselves savvy due to having used BBSes and IRS, like a signifier of "AOL-speak" used by the inexperienced noobs who learned about "The Internet!" from a magazine article.
Probably an unfair assessment and not really flattering considering we had only been using this stuff since the mid/late 1980s at best, but such is the folly of youth ;) Still, I never really lost that association of "LOL" with the annoyance I felt back at age 17 or 18 when "AOL kiddies" started showing up on IRC and MUDs.
My local friends and I have always just used “heh”, but even 10–15 years ago, a bunch of my friends from Spanish-speaking cultures were using “j(a|e)+” or some approximate.
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http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Lol
Also, I know someone named Lol - apparently it used to be quite a common shortening of Lawrence.
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Internet games teach you a lot of things :)
I use "hhhhh" instead, easy to type and makes a more "realistic" sound to me.
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They'd list all of these abbreviations like "LOL" and "ROFL" among others that struck us, as likely dickish teenagers who considered ourselves savvy due to having used BBSes and IRS, like a signifier of "AOL-speak" used by the inexperienced noobs who learned about "The Internet!" from a magazine article.
Probably an unfair assessment and not really flattering considering we had only been using this stuff since the mid/late 1980s at best, but such is the folly of youth ;) Still, I never really lost that association of "LOL" with the annoyance I felt back at age 17 or 18 when "AOL kiddies" started showing up on IRC and MUDs.
My local friends and I have always just used “heh”, but even 10–15 years ago, a bunch of my friends from Spanish-speaking cultures were using “j(a|e)+” or some approximate.