LOL? REALLY?

I agree. Worse still, I’ve heard a couple of people actually say LOL at the end of a sentence. Idiots.

I’m always reminded of a mother who texted her son and the rest of her family with details of her fathers funeral, ending each text with lol, when her son told her it mean laugh out loud and not lots of love she was horrified and had to sent apologetic texts to everybody.
I don’t usually use abbreviations (only on GN) and didn’t know about the 2 that you used!

Fair point phoenix though LOL can also mean 'lots of love'

Actually, I have been thinking about you, phoenix.

I made a pie. Yet to be sampled.
With whatever I had, so it is apple and strawberry with short crust pastry.
It could have a soggy bottom.

Sorry, back to the question. Some people are very odd and don't know what is appropriate.

Callistemon my very favourite pie is .....Pie! Of any sort.
Sadly today we didn’t have any pie.?

I’ve considered why I think LOL is “lots of love” when the kids use it to mean “laugh out loud”.
It’s because I think of texting and posting as letters, written communication so I’d never write “I’m laughing” but that’s funny or it made me laugh, something like that.
The younger generation see it as sort if subtitles to a spoken conversation so lol is a description of them laughing.

My daughter made her very first pie today (ie made her own pastry) at the ripe old age of 42 !! She and I are very proud Her ambition in life was not to turn out like her mother - aah well "needs must when the devil drives"

It did not have a soggy bottom!

David Cameron thought it meant " Lots of love"

LOL? Haha!

You see other daft examples "Went shopping and forgot to buy milk, LOL!"

if that really did make them laugh out loud, then there's probably a village somewhere that's wondering why their idiot has been absent lately!

Absolutely Phoenix - you did make me do more than TAB

Grannylaine you might mean Lots Of Love - but it doesn’t mean it - honest!

I am constantly amazed at the things that apparently make people “cry with laughter “. Or be “in stitches”. Or indeed LOL.

MawB Who says?

As for Plz and ya card

Well, what can I say except LOL!

lol helps the reader to get an idea of the intonation. "I forgot the milk lol" suggests that it's not a disaster whereas "I forgot the milk suggests it was a disaster. I don't see a problem with it tbh