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).

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 ...

Do you ‘haha’ or do you ‘hehe’? Or maybe you prefer to express yourself with emoji. And if you’re still laughing with ‘Lol’, you’re probably a bit out of touch, old-timer.

So what does your preferred e-laugh say about you ... Young people also preferred emoji and "haha," while "hehe" and "lol" were more popular among older users, according to the study.

Perhaps one of the most iconic internet slang terms is “LOL ... the skull emoji. Others have even adopted “IJBOL“, which is another acronym meaning “I just burst out laughing.” ...

IJBOL stands for “I just burst out laughing ... as LOL and LMAO to LMFAO (who could forget the “Party Rock Anthem”), ROTFL and so many more. Then there are the different emoji trends ...

followed LOL some time in the early 1990s. By 2015, when Facebook conducted a study of e-laughter on its platform, haha and hehe, followed by the laughing emoji, were among the most common types ...

The “cry laughing” emoji has been my nemesis for as long as ... Traditionally I would have used an unironic “lol” (or the upper case “LOL” depending on the veracity of the lol) but ...

Apparently, it's pretty common to laugh online and we all attach ... people who used LOL, people who used hehe, and the emoji people. Haha was the most popular with 51.4 percent of the group ...