can somebody explain me what's the meaning of "lol" i don't know what that means

I think that these contractions came about first on Instant Messaging sites and Bulletin Boards. I certainly remember seeing them long before SMS was invented. They happened to begin with because people needed to express emotions along with their messages but only had the basic text characters (all 125 of them!) to play with - so things like ":-)" or ":)"(happy), ":-(" or ":(" (sad), ":D" (laughing) and ";)" (winking) became common. Then came the things like "LOL" ('laughing/laughs out loud' - but sometimes used for 'lots of love'), "IMO" or "IMHO" ('in my [humble] opinion'), "ROTFL" ('rolling/rolls on floor laughing') and many others. As I recall, they weren't used JUST to save space and time when typing but it also meant that you were part of the "in" crowd if you understood and used them. I remember my own and several other people's embarrassment at having to ask what they meant! There are now a HUGE number of accepted emoticons (and the list grows all the time) with some being used more by some cultures than others. Here is a list of a few of them: http://www.netlingo.com/smileys.php Here is a very long list of "txt" and Internet acronyms (including "LOL"): http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php

Hi hdhorda4. Like what they said, lol is an abbreviation for laughing out loud. It is an internet slang. It is like BWL which means bursting with laughter. I've heard that Oxford english dictionary added popular internet slang terms to its pages, including lol. :)

It simple means "laugh out loud". But because it's too long to write they just use the acronym. You may also see acronym ROFL and it stands for Rolling on the Floor Laughing.

I remember telling off a friend because she sent me a text message that says LOL. I really thought that she meant to say a word in our dialect which means imbecile. When I told her off, she sent another big LOL and told me it simply means laugh out loud and that she was laughing at my joke. Cheers!