where the ward "lol" come from, i think it stand for somthing, ppl keep using it in chat...me too alot..lol
105237
Yeah, obvious laugh out loud, to shorten things up, there are a lot of really weird ones, loti, laughing on the inside. Probably it started with a couple of people then just grew with increased blogging and IM and chatrooms especially.
200422
I can only assume you're referring to 'lmao' - an acronym used online meaning 'laugh my ass off'.  \nOther than that, I don't know.
856975
IT MEANS LOL THAT U REALLY AHEV NUTHING TO SAY HAHAH THAS RIGHT
407804
lol- laugh out loud\nlol- loser on line\nlol- like other lives\nlol- look or leap
73411
I don't know if it's actually rude or not, but I did read somewhere that when a person types in all caps, it signifies raising one's voice. (as in anger) So, maybe it is rude. Sometimes I do it when I'm laughing at something, though...
672680
It's from being online too much. Laziness is a factor. It may have been spawned from the whole "text messaging" cell phone reveloution. But to be honest, the brevity in online language has been around a long time. Ever since the dawn of online communication people have been coming up with clever little emoticons and ways of shortening phrases. For instance, LOL standing for Laughing out Loud. AFK standing for "Away from Keyboard" which you don't see much of anymore. BRB meaning "Be Right Back" is the same idea. In any case, these have been around forever. Yet the shortening of normal words is a bit absurd and it's everywhere. Sometimes I even catch myself using "ur" to represent the word "your". It may be because I use text messaging every day and it is much easier to hit a button 5 times then it is to hit it 9. I agree the laziness is just stupidity and really people should avoid doing it. Ultimately, it just makes people forget how to read and write properly. Which means you get a bunch of idiots online talking to each other and you have to try and interpret what they're saying. BTW, I think most of them really don't know how to spell.
54833
these words are what you call "chatspeak". These are shortened versions of phrases or words that are used for faster and easier typing. LOL means laugh out loud, Rofl means roll on the floor laughing, wtf means "what the ....", jk means joke
1063004
i like bubo--the swollen lymph nodes you get with the bubonic plague.  it was VERY hard in my infectious disease class, i kept giggling every time he said bubo.  i won't pretend to know why i find this so funny.  my other favorite word is Trinidad.  a friend of mine and i used to always play pirates video games and trinidad became our "code word" for everything.  i miss you=trinidad, cheer up/i'm here for you=trinidad, i'm so happy=trinidad.  you get the idea.
1033995
From my own experiences, when we use it it has more of a friendly meaning. When others use it, most of the time it's used in a derogatory way.\n\nIMO I don't think anyone should use it, black or otherwise.
555893
It's slang from the UK & Ireland, a made up phrase to avoid cursing when surprised or annoyed.\n\nIt's also a slang term for a sexual position.
288969
It's laugh(ing) out loud. You may also see roflol, lmao, roflmao which all pretty much mean the same thing. roflol means rolling on floor laughing out loud, lmao means laughing my a$$ off, and roflmao, well just put them together and you should be able to figure it out. Theres a pretty cool site which explains alot of internet slang, but I can't remember it :(  anyways, hope you're alot wiser now.
951597
I don't mind the occasional silly words in chat, the thing that gets to me is the constant BUZZING when you don't answer because you are busy doing something else!!!  Some people have their own way of chatting so they put those words in like lol or whatever.
857361
I dont know for sure, but I have some sort of educated guess. I think that some kids our age (when chat was first invented) started to think that typing out the entire word was getting to be tiring. Then they started to abbreviate the words by taking the 1st letter of each word. LOL would be laugh out loud, because over the years, people started to develop these into meaning no sense when translated, but so that they make sense when it was inserted with its abbreviated form. I hope u think this is an OK guess.
23812
either the other answer is the correct one or someone errored in trying to type nagging, by accidentally hitting the b instead of the n. Or perhaps they just forgot their r and meant bragging.\n\nBut if it truely is meant to be bagging, then I have no idea, because I haven't heard it used in slang terms in my surroundings.
21141
U dumb as hell if U don't No what LOL means ( laugh out loud)I still love u duuuuuuo
814862
sometimes the message just doesn't get across because you can't tell body language or hear inflection.  \n\notherwise, i'd say a large part of the online community simply has too large a stick up their behinds to laugh at themselves or to ever consider that so much of their very existence is laughable to others.
588645
It means laugh out loud...but it is also used when u just have nothing to say sfter someone makes a statement. anymore when i say lol i am hardly ever actually laughing...it seems to be more of a way to fill up space.