To indicate laughter while surfing Facebook, do you write “lol,” “haha,” “hehe” or use a smiling emoji? To determine trends in "e-laughing," Facebook researchers recently crunched some data. In the ...

Are you a "haha"? Do you LOL? Or are you a devotee of the tears-of-joy emoji? As it turns out, how you laugh on the Internet says a lot about you. The results: According to Facebook, expressing ...

Across all age groups (13 to 70), the most common laughs used in Facebook are still haha , hahaha , hahahaha , and only then followed by hehe . A recent Facebook research on e-laughing says that most ...

Last week I sent a text message to a friend. A Hollywood business meeting I had high hopes for had been suddenly “postponed.” “Everybody canceled except me,” I texted. She texted back, “Haha.” What’s ...

Facebook has published data on the different types of “written laughter,” from “haha” and “hehe” to “lol” and emojis. Facebook’s muse, was Sarah Larson, a reporter for the New Yorker who recently has ...

Do you ‘haha’ or do you ‘hehe’? Or maybe you prefer to express yourself with emoji. And if you’re still laughing with ‘Lol’, you’re probably a bit out of touch, old-timer. Lol has fallen out of favour ...

The most common laugh on Facebook is 'haha', surpassing various 'emoji', 'hehe' and 'lol', a new study on e-laughing has found. The most common laugh on Facebook is ‘haha’, surpassing various ’emoji’, ...

University of Pittsburgh provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Laughter is uniquely human. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes uncontrollable, we laugh out loud to signal our reaction to a ...

When Facebook users laugh it up, they’re more apt to hahaha than LOL, a new study by the website reveals. But those cute little emoji are as popular as ever. The “Not So Universal Language of Laughter ...