A real nerdy website is cracking down on the misuse of “LOL”:

Over the past decade it has become increasingly obvious that countless web users are misrepresenting themselves by typing LOL (or “lolling” as it has come to be called) when they are NOT actually laughing out loud.

So really when you get an LOL, theres a chance your just mildly funny. To better demonstrate the extent of this lie please refer to the graph below:

via centraldigit.com