LOL, the acronym for “laugh out loud” and once the universal sign of online amusement, is fading fast.
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Study also shows women like to use more emojis than men do. “Hehe” came in third place with 13.1 percent while “LOL” registered with a measly 1.9 percent.
The study focused on Facebook posts and did not include direct messages, where users would be more likely to “e-laugh”, the Daily Mail reports. Southern states displayed the greatest use of the abbreviation. So what does your preferred e-laugh say about you? The classic “LOL” was preferred by older people, which may give you some idea of why it’s on the way out – no one wants to e-laugh in the same way their parents or grandparents do online.
Facebook has completed a thorough check of all the ways that people laugh on the internet, and has ruled the “lol” dead.
The data set also revealed there are differences both geographically and between men and women when it comes to expressing laughter.
There’s actually these things called words which, if used correctly, can let people know if you’ve found something amusing, or can alternatively inform those reading your post that it’s meant as a joke. Emoji is the second most popular way and “hehe” follows up close after.
Interestingly though it turns out that we’re not laughing uniformly: There are gender, age and geographic divisions.
Facebook also decided to see if types of laughter were more popular in different U.S. cities, comparing behavior in Boston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle.
For the complete study, check it out here on Facebook.
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) recently released some exciting data on the use of different types of “written laughter”, beginning with “hehe” and “haha” and including “lol” and emojis. They found that while the Midwest tends to use emojis, Ohio is more of a haha state. But as LOL spread, it was increasingly used by people who were in fact only chuckling, or worse, showing no outward sign of laughter at all.
