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So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll stop doing this when we make a new punctuation that conveys my need for people to like me lol
Comment on I'm guilty, lol
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll stop doing this when we make a new punctuation that conveys my need for people to like me lol
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We did, they’re called emojis.
Gen z seems to have figured that out, too. They use emojis like punctuations, in much the same way we use lol. I was annoyed by it at first but I got used to.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure Millennials never caught onto that because we either used emoticons, or were traumatized into thinking that emojis were somehow “girly”. So the lol or lmao ended up being the way to show emotion/sentiment.
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was because there were all kinds of tacky and terrible looking emoticon packs back then, pretty much everyone agreed you looked like a dork. Nowadays they are used to produce shitposts.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.
Google dawt cawm… Fun smily face pack 4 chat on yahoo and aim Download Ooh, desktop strippers? Sweet! I’ll go ahead and get that too. Oh no way, a purple ape assistant! Sweet, lemme git that. I’ll be ur buddy bonzi.
Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.
At least I think that’s what they did.
evranch@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I use emojis when talking to specific people, lol with others and some I don’t use any text slang at all.
Strangely because I grew up with lots of phpBB forums, the few of them that I still engage with for things like classic cars and farm talk I always use the emojis because that’s what we always did :mrgreen:
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, I use them all the time 🤷♂️
JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
which emoji is lol?
poppy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
😛or 😁 depending on context
JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
those don’t look very loud
aulin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What? Are we out of sync? As a millennial I use a lot of emoji, and gen z’ers almost don’t use any, and tell me it’s cringe to use them.