Laughter in writing: the “lol” is it “old”? – BFMTV.COM

When you laugh in writing, What are you writing? “Haha”, “lol”, “ptdr,” “XD”? It is very seriously as researchers working for Facebook have analyzed comments statutes on the social network . Result: the way you laugh online writing says more about you than you think

The first lesson of this study week. We laugh a lot. In 15% of comments or analyzed Facebook posts, the person expresses a laugh. However, over half (52%) of Internet users surveyed use only one way of laughing.

The end of “lol”

“Haha” and its derivatives like “hahaha” or “hahaha” largely won the match Laughter writing being used in more than half of observed case. Second, the user prefers to use an emoji to comment or post on Facebook. Then come the onomatopoeia “hehe” and “lol”. The acronym for “loughing out loud” (“laughing out loud”) is dead last with less than 2% of occurrences

Facebook – The expressions used to indicate the merrier, the study published on the Facebook blog.

The emoji for youth, “lol” for the old

What does your relentless use of “lol”? Whether you’re a purist? Perhaps. What the study shows is the difference by age. If you have the habit of “lol”, you are certainly older than a user emojis. Similarly, women use more emojis and men more “haha” and “hehe”.

This study has analyzed the statutes and Facebook comments and excluded chats like Messenger , Hangout , WhatsApp or even texting. Another downside: for a week scientists have observed that Anglophones conversations, excluding our small expressions homegrown as the charming “ptdr” and “lol”

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