It sounds difficult to decipher, but for a growing number of teens and 20-somethings, the acronyms once resigned to computer chat programs and social networking have made their way into vocabularies.

Back in the heyday of AOL Instant Messenger, I liked to chat with this girl from my high school named Laura. Sometimes, when I made a joke, she typed “lol” in response. Now and then she’d respond with ...

Social media has meant that slang is developing faster than possibly ever before. While these terms help shorten communication and make conversations more to the point, they are not always easy to ...

You know those millennials who pepper every text with an “lol” or emoji like it’s life support? Anna Gaddis (@annagaddis) is one of those people — and she’s clapping back at the haters. In a recent ...

Look around! There are LOLs everywhere! Maybe it's a dog spinning so fast he's a blur, or a weird goat, or beach sand castle traps, the world is full of funnies! SportsYahoo Sports ...

Everyone knows LOL means laugh out loud, but how do you say it? Is it el-oh-el? What about as one fluid word "lawl"? Or maybe with a strong "oh" sound, like "lole"? Pronouncing anything you see on the ...

Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from ...

Every once in a while, you'll receive a text that truly makes you stop everything and laugh out loud. Sometimes, it's the perfect reaction GIF from your best friend, or a typo that takes on a whole ...