The questions you need to ask youself are:

1a) When talking to someone online or in an email, do you use the acronym lol as punctuation? E.g. “I went to work today and stapled my boss’ eyelids shut lol.” Or, “I don’t think so lol it doesn’t look edible” This could apply to any commonly used acronyms, like rofl or lmao etc.

1b) If yes, do you also use variations of the said acronyms to emphasise your point? E.g. your normal sentence might be “I’d hit it lol.” but your emphasised sentence would be “I’d hit it LOL.” Because as everyone knows, putting it in caps means you are actually laughing out loud…

2) Did you read the above and find nothing wrong with the sentence in quotes? If yes, and you weren’t sure about question one, I think you can safely answer yes to that one now.

3) The killer question: Do you use such terms in everyday REAL life? (Yes, I mean offline *shocked!*). Like if someone tells a joke or says something funny, do you say: LOL! or ROFFLE! and then immediately think to youself, “Hmm perhaps that wasn’t the correct reaction…” as everyone looks at you like you’re a complete wierdo…

Answer the questions!

For the record, I answered yes to all three questions LOL!