wtf r u lol-ing abt u rtard?

I forgot to mention it in the previous post but I did manage to complete my 50,000 word novel for this year's NaNoWriMo but the last 20,000 words or so is just me rambling on about totally random things (even more random than most of the stuff I ramble about here) in a manner best described as utterly incoherent. I do intend on fixing it up to at least a readable standard and will do so when I can be bothered (pronounced "don't hold your breath"). Anyway, onto today's rant...

Has anybody else noticed that the internet has taken over every facet of our lives? Now we can do all our shopping online, communicate with people online, read the newspaper online, attend university online, watch movies and television online, etc. We're so caught up in our virtual world that we can't seem to interact normally with reality anymore. I quite frequently hear children saying "LOL" and "ROFL" rather than actually laughing out loud or rolling on the floor as in on fire. This is alarming. Are we so used to utilising "lol" as our standard online chat response (something I'm shamefully guilty of myself) that we've transferred this to real life? So used to it that we've forgotten how to actually laugh? Even more alarming is when people say "sigh". That's right, they don't sigh anymore, they say "sigh". Then there are people who speak in acronyms. Yes, I understand that acronyms will often be faster than pronouncing entire words. Especially when said words may be a mouthful. But when the pronunciation of the acronym requires more effort than the actual words themselves, it hardly seems to make any sense. The most common example of this is when people say "double you tee eff". It's not as if people don't know what the acronym means. It makes me wonder what the f*ck people are thinking when they use an extra two syllables.

Also worrying me is the number of verbs suddenly appearing in the vernacular. These days we don't search for something random online. We "google it". We don't read shoddy inaccurate articles on an online encyclopedia about some new drunken bimbo. We "wiki it". We don't find stupid navigation instructions to some random location. We "whereis it". It gets even more fun when we start conjugating these noun-verbs into their various tenses.

Anyway, funny story. I loved whereising my way to new places so much I developed a callous from it. Thinking "WTF, this might be troublesome", I wikied up a page on callouses to find out how long it would last. And GG, I found out it would last up to six months but could be surgically removed. I intend to google the nearest clinic as soon as possible and have a doctor perform the surgery over the internet. LOL.