My neighbor Calamity makes another good point about the grammar of instant message laughter. The almighty 'laugh out loud' comes with its own superlative counterparts: lol, lmao, and lmfao. It's the internet's own version of good, better, best. Lol is the same-age cousin of the casual humor acknowledgement 'haha.' 'lmao' is saved for things that really are funny. And the 'lmfao' is the rarest of online chuckling, kind of like seeing a yeti, a unicorn, and a dodo bird have a manage et trios…in laughter form, of course.
And for the wannabe thuggette 16-year-old girls out there, add a 'z' to the 'lol' and you get the slang version of IM haha. So if lol, lmao, lmfao is like good, better, best, than 'lolz' pretty much means 'dope.'
And of course, none of this should be confused with LFO…cuz obviously anything involving white boys rap-singing about Abercrombie and fitch must mean it's BAD…and i don't mean bad meaning good, i mean bad meaning plain ol' bad.
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