Young people decide there's not much to LOL about any more
by Caroline Davies from on (#H09T)
The text speak acronym may soon be laughing no more, according to a Facebook survey in the US, with haha, hehe and emoji now far more popular
It began as a shorthand understood only by computer geeks and went on to enter the dictionary and be (mis)used by the prime minister. But LOL, the acronym for "laugh out loud" used to express an electronic laugh, has had its day, according to a Facebook survey.
As parents and grandparents have taken up "lolling" and "lolzing", the young have abandoned it in favour of the heartier "haha" and "hehe", or use emoji to express amusement in text.
