No more LOLs: 50% of Facebook users prefer 'haha' to laughing out loud

Social network study finds just 1.9% use 'LOL' to signal amusement, as emoji use is on the rise

Still using LOL to express laughter digitally? Ha, that's so old. According to a new study carried out by Facebook, 51% of us express our laughter on the social network with a simple "haha".

The US-wide study, entitled The Not-So-Universal Language of Laughter, and conducted in response to a New Yorker article on the subject of "e-laughter", has collated data on the way de-identified users express mirth. The results are broken down by age, gender and location.