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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those of us who bravely never succumbed to the temptation of integrating "lol" and related variants into our daily communications are now due for a celebration, as a victory by the far more appealing ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO — LOL had a good run.

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 ...

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’, ...

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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 ...

Washington: The most common laugh on Facebook is 'haha', surpassing various 'emoji', 'hehe' and 'lol', a new study on e-laughing has found. Researchers found that the vast majority of people in their ...