I have friends that spell every word out, as it should be, in every chat. And I feel they’re just weird. But one thing that commons us is e-laughter. There’s no way to form it, and you can’t be prim and proper about it. Just Looool, Laaaal, Lmao, Hehehehe and Hahahaha! That’s it. Laugh!

ELKAFT!

So, maybe this is where I’m weird. I can identify who sent me a message among my major friends if you show me their e-laughter. And looking through their personalities, there’s usually a similar pattern of laughter among those with similar attitudes. It may be somewhat insignificant, but that pattern exists. Let’s see if it’s the same with your friends.

Note: I know we all use these e-laughters, some of us just have our majors. More so, because we go through a series of moods daily, some of these “laughters” may tell what mood we currently are or the position the conversation is setting us.

Looool-ers

They are the easy going type. They don’t express amusement loudly, and are the ones who sit back while you roll out the gist. If they give you ‘Lol’, they are trying to save you the embarrassment of looking silly from your dead or unamusing joke, and at other times, it may just be that they are really not interested or don’t know what to say. It could also mean, ‘hmm..OK…go on…’.

‘Lool’ from them means ‘that’s cool’, and ‘Loool’ means ‘oh, nice’ or ‘that’s quite funny’. If the O’s go beyond that, then praise God, you’re having a field day.

LMAO-uters

If you get a “Looool-er” to this level on a regular, you’re the boss. Although, this is the ideal spot for extroverted cool kids. The TBH Twitter folks who can slalom into LWKMD twitter. And yes LWKMD, let’s deal with it now, those ones are razz! They are likely chatting with you from a toilet seat while eating groundnut.

Heheheh-aters

They like gossip! She’s likely throbbing the family’s Amala while she keeps picking her phone to reply you with just laughter.

Sumbo: As she was trying to jump the gutter, her skirt just tore…fia!

Her: (while proportioning the Amala with a scoop on her left hand) Hehehehe…

Sumbo: Well, she was already close to his apartment. Guess that even helps to speed up the ‘process’.

Her: (drops Amala pestel) Hehehehe… Hmmm… Sometin sometin!

At times though, if you’re out of a conversation already and the other party is so amused about the discussion, this may be the best type of laughter to save them the embarrassment. Hehehe… and let them be feeling themselves.

Hahahaha-nimals

These ones are loud laughers. You can almost picture their jaw dropping that wide, their head jolting backwards and they’re falling off a chair.

If you say something really funny, say on Twitter, you will see this a lot in your mention.

Then If you have a poll to conduct, to know how many people have had houseflies zoom into their mouths before…don’t look further.

These are my friends. How do your own friends laugh?