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The ever-increasing popularity of text messaging, e-mail, and social media ushered in some sweeping changes to patterns in human communication. Among them was an upswing in use of abbreviations for ...

(NEXSTAR) – Since the dawn of the digital age, internet users have developed shorthand ways to express themselves on instant messages and comments, with acronyms like TTYL, BRB, LOL, FYI, and OMG. As ...

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So, yes. (Forgive me, Mr. Emerson.) But stop looking at the picture. Look, instead, at the caption Kim appended to her Insta: When you’re like I have nothing to wear LOL. Look, in particular, at that ...

Are you overly reliant on an emotional-support “lol” at the end of a text? Do you stop yourself from adding “lol” to work emails and Slack messages? Are you, by chance, a millennial? In the comments ...