I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.

It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.

It's a good tone indicator

Wish granted. Haha

I cannot unless I substitute in :)

Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20's, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol

I've never heard anyone actually complain about this, lol.

How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.

Lol.

I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

LOL lol

Semi-related:

I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?

lol xd

I literally can't stop myself lol

It's a problem lmao

Okay rofl

lol. lmao, even.

LOL 🤪

I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol

how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that

I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

Well crap my username announces my age.

No lol

How about this? Ü

I hear you.

Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.

If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.

If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.

There are more important things to worry about.