Majority of E-Laughs are Hahas, Facebook says

By Tom Coombe You may have laughed out loud at something you saw on Facebook recently, but you probably didn t type “lol.” That s according to new research by the social media platform, which analyzed user “e-laughter” across Facebook for the last week of May. Facebook s conclusion: Most people during that time — 51.4 percent — used “haha” to denote laughter. Another 33.7 percent posted some sort of emoji. In third place came haha s cousin, “hehe” at 13 percent. Finally, there s “lol,” which accounted for only 1.9 percent of e-laughter during the time of the study. (To be fair: this study only looked at Facebook users, and only at one period of time, so it s possible “lol” still holds sway over other corners of the Internet.) Small business owners need to communicate online, and knowing how e-laughter works is another tool to understanding and speaking the language. Facebook s research was done in response to a New Yorker article by Sarah Larson, which sugg
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