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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !

("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary

Dem digitalen Lachen auf der Spur

(On the tracks of the digital laugh)

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Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 19.8.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, youth
Summary | The article reports about another article in the The New Yorker by Sarah Larson who did a quantitative study about how Americans convey laughter in their digital communication. They collected data from Facebook comment sections and analyzed them. Different ways to communicate laughter online co-occur with different demographics: younger people and women use more emojis to indicate laughter and men and older people do this more verbally by writing “haha” or similar verbal tokens
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