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What do you usually express your feeling of laughing when you are chatting with friends online?

People like to use "LOL, LoL or lol" to indicate laughing online, but me I go by adding 555 whenever I feel something funny and giving more 55555555 for those extraordinary drollery.

LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud, or laugh out loud or sometimes “lots of laughs”, is a common element of Internet slang. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO ("laughing my ass off"), ROTFL ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing") or ROFL ("roll(ing) on [the] floor laughing"), and BWL ("bursting with laughter").


While most people around the world using LOL, some of them prefers using their own national slang, such as "mdr" (Mort de rire = dying of laughter) for French, "asg" (asgrav = laughter) for Swedish, "g" (griner = laughing) for Danish, "rs" (risos = laugh) for Brazilian and "w" (wara (笑) = laugh) for Japanese. 


Like many other nationals, Thai commonly use "555" for laughing. 555 is the Thai variation of LOL. "5" in Thai is pronounced "ha", three of them being "hahaha". Even if we, Thais, type sentences in English or other languages, 555 is still used in those messages. 


For example: 
"That is so ridiculous!!!" 55555555.


Of course, the sentences with 555 we use in chatting must be suited for another who understands what 5 means, but most of the time, we familiarly use it and totally forget that 555 isn't worked well with someone.


mj wrote in his blog that ...... he kept seeing the number 5 everywhere in Thai chatting. He stepped in and asked a Thai what 5 meant. After learning the meaning and how to use, he felt it's cool and start using it by then. 


If you have a chance to chat with a Thai, don't be surprised that you will see tons of 555 in the message. Let's laugh together 555 ^^.