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 ...

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 ...

According to a new report from Facebook, the way we pretend to laugh at jokes online is evolving. While “lol” has long replaced “rofl” as an acceptable acronym to point out that something is mildly ...

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 ...

A Facebook study analyzing the way we laugh online has found the phrase “LOL,” or “laugh out loud” is dying and instead users prefer a hearty “haha.” An article in The New Yorker examining the ...

Are you an "LOL"-er or a "haha"-er? Or maybe you're the king of "hehe's" or the queen of smiley-face emoji. A new Facebook study shows that your way of expressing laughter on social media may have to ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — LOL had a good run. According to new research by Facebook, LOL’s dominance is coming to an end. The classic Internet slang term, which stands for “laugh out loud,” has been replaced by ...

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 ...

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is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If you still “lol” at jokes online then you might be in the minority. A new report from Facebook into how ...