LOL
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LOL, or lol, is an initialism for laughing out loud[1][2][3][4] and a popular element of Internet slang. It was first used almost exclusively on Usenet, but has since become widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication and even face-to-face communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO[5] ("laughing my ass off") and ROFL[6][7][8] or ROTFL[9][10] ("rolling on the floor laughing").
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The list of acronyms "grows by the month" (said Peter Hershock in 2003),[7] and they are collected along with emoticons and smileys into folk dictionaries that are circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms of (textual) computer-mediated communication.[11] These initialisms are controversial, and several authors[12][13][14][15] recommend against their use, either in general or in specific contexts such as business communications.
The Oxford English Dictionary first listed LOL in March 2011.[16]