LOL, Haha, Hehe, Emoji … How U.S. Facebook Users Express Laughter
Do you LOL, do you haha or do you hehe? The answer to that question was no laughing matter to Facebook Research.
Do you LOL, do you haha or do you hehe? The answer to that question was no laughing matter to Facebook Research.
Researcher Udi Weinsberg, product science group leader Lada Adamic and data scientist Mike Develin were inspired by an article in The New Yorker written by Sarah Larson, which examined the way people express laughter electronically.
They studied anonymous posts on Facebook during the last week of May with at least one string of characters matching laughter, including variants of haha, hehe, LOL and emoji.
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