[NeoDarkHeart]

yeah i so agree! i'd really rather waste my time expressing a humorous reaction to something by doing "haha" to "hahaha" to "hahahaha" all the time as opposed to the three simple "lol", "rofl", "lmao", and the occasional and rare "roflmao".

seeing "haha" all the time would annoy the crap out of me. not everyone actually says "haha". some people snicker, some people chortle, some people give a little smile and say "heh" under their breath... as opposed to the overall "lol" which just expresses a basic humorous reaction, "haha" is something that's actually said, and therefore couldnt represent something as broad as "lol" does.

would you suggest that every acronym and symbol be spelled out and explained everytime it's used?

example: "hey where do you work, man?" "the federal bureau of investigations." "cool... crap, i have to go to the department of motor vehicles before it closes!" "better hurry... i could go with you if you wanna take the high occupancy vehicles lane, it is usually quicker." "okay let us go, maybe we can make it before it is too late."

FBI
DMV
HOV
let's
it's

i include contractions because they're in the catagory of things that help shorten and take the tedium from typing/writing and talking.

in short... people are using acronyms more and more nowadays. in a place like the internet where you're forced to type over and over again, it helps to make it so that when you type, you type less, and dont have to stress about people going "OH MY GOD HE DIDNT CAPITALIZE HIS SENTENCES! DO EVIL THINGS TO HIM!". that's what school is for.