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[E-Cat]

hate to be the one to break this to you, but there are many other generations that are even younger than millenials

Well, not many. There's Zoomers and Gen Alpha. Gen Beta haven't been born yet.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I'm a millennial but I express my feelings with gifs.

 

[Three]

The new kids post emojis.
, this now means they find it funny.

 

[Braag]

What happened to that short period of time when people put a number after lol to show the intensity of the lol.
Like lol6

 

[near]

I use lol, lmao, hahaha, lololol and that's about it, only when I can't be bothered use an emoji. I'm a millennial.

 

[Audiophile]

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

F**K, the forum software also converts these automatically to emoticons ...

Emoji*, what you were typing are the emoticons.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I still like to use these: :-/ :-( etc in emails.

Absolutely hate it when they're automatically converted to emoticon smileys,

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F**K, the forum software also converts these automatically to emoticons ...

It's weird in 2025 when people self censor the word fuck on the Internet

 

[DKehoe]

The gentleman's method is the lol react.

 

[Londo]

Emoji*, what you were typing are the emoticons.

+1 here, for thinking until now that emoji and emoticons were the same thing, lol

 

[Aesius]

I use "roflcopter" to indicate laughter. And, of course, OMGWTFBBQ to express my surprise or confusion.

 

[AJUMP23]

Is it true that Men don't use emoji because we need to bury our feelings.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[kruis]

I use "roflcopter" to indicate laughter. And, of course, OMGWTFBBQ to express my surprise or confusion.

Does that mean you're a card carrying member of the LGBTWTFBBQ+ community?

 

[AJUMP23]

My last company, the younglings found the use of emojis in Slack messages as too aggressive and offensive if the wrong skin tone was selected.

Lol

How hard is it to be perpetually on the lookout for offense.

 

[dorkimoe]

i use it constantly just so people know im not being serious...i cant help it, its habit from like 15 years of texting. Im 37

 

[MilkyJoe]

Only women and children "lol" for men only the "haha" is acceptable. Is this clear, gentlemen?

 

[lachesis]

Gen X here. I occasionally use lol - in like "hello, fellow kids" fashion, when I feel like appeal to kids, as the whole abbreviation thing is so... youngster thing!
I'm more of old school : ) or : D or ; ) person from usenet days... d(^_^)b

But at least I do not say LOL out. I know some kids do!

 

[Trilobit]

Do people still use lol? Lmao that's cringe!

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I think it's nice lol

Gen z rather just stare at you completely brain dead

Makes sense. Their primary method of communication is digital.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

I'm old. But I just use smiling faces now. Texts and message. It cool and fine. But man, when ppl use to talk spelling it out like that. It was weird and it wasn't just that. It was everything they would do like that.

 

[TNT Sheep]

I only use lol sarcastically. Lmao and lmfao I still use as intended.

 

[NahaNago]

I use it every now and then, but it does feel off when I do. Like I should be using something else that is up to date.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

No, because I'm not a cunt and and also because rather than using a Nokia 3310 I have a phone that makes use of a full QWERTY keyboard so I don't need dozens of button presses to type a word. I also tend to ignore messages from people that use text speak. If I need to show my humour I'll use haha or bahaha if I'm laughing at something that normal people generally wouldn't.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Is it true that Men don't use emoji because we need to bury our feelings.

 

[AJUMP23]

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

 

[Baemono]

Gen X here.

Go yell at clouds

 

[sono]

its easier to type that trying to switch the damn small phone keyboard into emoji mode

 

[Paasei]

Lel, lol and lul are actual words i my language
Lel = old school way for "to hit (someone)"
Lol = fun
Lul = dick (as in calling someone a dick)