OMG! FYI, the OED is like all TMI. Can we still be BFF? LOL.; Open thread

The venerable Oxford English Dictionary has entered the age of Internet memes.

In an statement posted on Friday, which begins by rhapsodizing about significant revisions to words in the "R" range -- including rotund, rude, rumble, and ruthless -- the editors go on to note that they have also made room for two interesting additions, OMG and LOL.

"For the March 2011 release of OED Online," they state primly, "we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression. Some of these—such as OMG [OMG int. (and n.) and adj.]: ‘Oh my God’ (or sometimes ‘gosh’, ‘goodness’, etc.) and LOL [LOL int. and n./2]: ‘laughing out loud’—are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications (email, texting, social networks, blogs, and so on). They join other entries of this sort: IMHO (‘in my humble opinion’) [IMHO at I n./1], TMI (‘too much information’) [TMI at T n.], and BFF (‘best friends forever’) [BFF at B n.], among others."