# LOL - Smiley Face Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140 "2012-01-20T16:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/41 "2012-01-22T02:33:20Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > I thought the question was about text messaging, not message boards? I might have misunderstood. > > I don’t use either in text messages, but I do sometimes use ‘heh heh’. > > Heh heh. ARRRrrrgggh… Nevermind, I’m an idiot! I voted without reading the OP. I’ll have to change my answer to rarely to never. Cuz they’re just not very fun in just text. I mean… ;)? It’s just missing the fun factor somehow. No I resort to word and expressions I’m more likely to use IRL, like ARRRGGGGGHH. 😃 (ps, I use the big smilie here where I would, IRL, be laughing or smiling a huge smile, in fact, I have to try and curb my big smilie use and of course I often fail). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/42 "2012-01-22T12:10:56Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > I was told by someone here on the board to use LOL. > That person actually has me tied up in their basement so I have to comply. Since no smilie was included in this post, I’ve notified the missing persons bureau of the FBI and they are triangulating on your position as we speak. Don’t worry, honey, your nightmare is almost over! ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/43 "2012-01-22T13:17:52Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I never say lol either, and people have tried to get me to. Oh, come on, you can do it. Not even a little lol hee hee? Or a lol ho ho? ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/44 "2012-01-22T13:28:50Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I never say lol either, and people have tried to get me to. a lol ha ha? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/45 "2012-01-22T15:52:31Z")
People have learned not to write like eight-year-old girls at slumber parties to me. If they e me “LOL” (or, worse yet, the even lazier lower-case “lol”) or use “u” rather than “you,” I will stop communicating with them, and find some adults to chat with. What \*is \*it about texting and e-mailing that can turn a Noel Coward into a Kardashian? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/46 "2012-01-22T18:28:14Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > When I hit sixteen-ish, smilies and other “Internet slang” started to feel more like the mark of a tech newbie and also started to be equated with godawful “text speak” (omg u r going 2 his party 2nite?? me 2!!) which I wanted _no_ part of. So I dropped it altogether and started using the same grammar and style whenever I wrote, be it IM, message board, blog, or homework. I always text and type in complete, adult sentence. Often plus smileys. Why can’t it be both? =) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140/47 "2012-01-25T16:02:32Z")
It’s surprising to me that no one selected option 2. About a year ago, that would have been my choice, since my dumbphone didn’t have : or ) in its keyboard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lol-smiley-face-poll/610140.md?page=2)