The second most popular expression for a laugh is a happy face emoji preferred by 33.7%, and third is "hehe" at 13.1%. LOL was only used by 1.9% of people. Facebook found some other interesting ...

Other acceptable alternatives: the 😭 emoji (officially called “Loudly Crying Face”), or just writing “lol” (laughing out loud) or “lmao” (laughing my, well, you probably know the rest).

For the most part, a single emoji, haha, hehe or LOL will make the message clear, though often you’ll get an elongated hahaha or hehehe. When it comes to e-laughs, most users keep it short.

Seems like "LOL" is dying off. In her New Yorker piece, Larson posited that "hehe" sprung forth out of the vocabulary of today's youth, but Facebook found that this isn't exactly the case."From ...

Google Emoji Kitchen. I am actively scared of this snail creature. Its single eye has clearly seen something no mortal eyes were meant to see, and the little moue of its mouth makes it clear that ...

The “laugh out loud” face is officially the most popular emoji in the world. Software maker Adobe surveyed more than 7,000 people across several countries and the LOL face ranked No. 1.

The Joy emoji—also referred to on the ­Emojipedia website as “Face With Tears of Joy” or “the LOL Emoji” (emoji don’t have official names, just nicknames created by their users ...

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 ...