Wish granted. Haha

It's a good tone indicator

I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol

Well crap my username announces my age.

I literally can't stop myself lol

It's a problem lmao

I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.

It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.

How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.

Lol.

lol, ok

lol. lmao, even.

Sure lol

I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter

I hear you.

Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.

If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.

If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.

There are more important things to worry about.

how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that

I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

I could never bring myself to do that, actually.

So I just ended up replacing it with an equally annoying onomatopoeic expression to end almost every sentence, haha

It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol

How about this? Ü

I was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying "lol" quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it's a habit.
"Man, that sucks lol". They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn't realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it..

Cry about it, lol.

Rofl lmao XD

I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha

I've never heard anyone actually complain about this, lol.

xd

Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20's, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol

Okay rofl

If you are particularly deranged, you can also use "^^"

:3

I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?

I use this too much lol