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"LOL" may be going the way of "you've got mail" and other online anachronisms. A new Facebook study found that users vastly preferred using "haha" and emoji over the acronym, which found its roots in a text-only newsletter in 1989.Facebook corralled de-identified user posts from the month of May and analyzed them for instances of laughter. What they found was:
- 15 percent of statuses included some form of laughter.
- 52 percent of people used "haha."
- 33percent of people used emojis to laugh. Facebook highlighted these:
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2 percent of people used "LOL."
Women were more likely to use emoji to convey laughter.
Men like using "haha" more than women.