Nobody lols any more, they haha and heheinstead. Facebook has completed a thorough check of all the ways that people laugh on the internet, and has ruled the “lol“ dead. A range of different laughs have taken its place, varying greatly depending on age, gender and location.
The site took the posts of its users and organised them into four different forms: “haha“, “hehe“, “lol“ and “emoji“. Those four groups included a wide range of different laughs -so “haha“ includes “hahaha“, for instance. The site found that 51.4% of the people who laughed use “haha“. Emoji was the second biggest way of communicating a laugh, at 33.7%; “hehe“ represented 13.1%; and 1.9% said “lol“.
The Facebook study followed an article in The New Yorker about the various ways that people laugh on the internet.
Facebook's findings showed that “haha“ was still the most popular way of laughing across all groups.Emoji was more popular among young people, and lol was bigger among older Facebook users.
(Source: The Independent)
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