LOL

I have had an epiphany! Not really...just something I believed to be mildly interesting. Texting one of my close friends (name disclosed for privacy purposes), I have realized that the sophisticated acronym L.O.L . has ripened drastically. Laugh Out Loud- a pop culture icon; used by someone in every culture, race, country, and social class has gone from being used for something that is genuinely sidesplitting, to various morphed evolutions. It has been used to lighten the tone of a comment, as to abstain from sounding melancholy, furious or dreary; to becoming one of the answers of monotony, making the "I don't really want to talk right now" responses a trio of awkward-turtles; yes, no and l.o.l. It has even gone as far as to become to wax into a piteous space-filler; vacant conversations of l.o.l. this and l.o.l. that; whilst everyone knowing the person isn't truly laughing out loud time after time.
now the few happenings were ONE truly l.o.l have to be expressed in a way akin to "LOL LOL LOL!"
then again all of this could just be me. :p