I haven't seen LOL for a while and never ever seen FWIW, ROTFLMA or ICLIU but this is because of my ignorance

I think that "textual emoticons" are being replaced by emoticons like :-)

saves you trouble explaining, I'll less likely get offended by a post if I see in it.

I like local smiling faces and, in fact, I find that there is not enough of them. for example, on a Russian internet forum
there is some 100 small pictures that one can insert in one's post. I miss "applause" - two hands clapping.