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The results are in, and the most popular way of 'e-laughing' has been revealed. 

It's true, when we type 'LOL', 'Haha' or 'hehe' we're not so much bursting out laughing as we are just sporting a mildly amused smile. 

In the early days of social media, LOL was the go-to way of expressing how hilarious we thought someone was online, but over the past few years it's been over-shadowed by it's laughing counter-parts. 

It turns out 'haha' now leads the way with 51.4 % people using that in their interactions on Facebook. Following closely behind is our all time favourite emoji, the laughing face!

 

This study was carried out by Facebook and analysed all of the websites users, finding that 46% of people post a single laugh in some shape or form each week. 

Of all of the people using Facebook, 20% of them like to mix things up a bit and use two types of laughter, just to really get their point across when they find something funny! 

So things have changed a lot over the years with only 1.9% of people being 'lol-ers'. 

The study which was spread across people of age 13 to age 70 shows that younger people are more like to use the laughing emoji while the older generation are still sticking to the old reliable, LOL. (Although they sometimes mix it up with 'lots of love')

The study suggests that "ha is like a lego piece, which people use to convey different "levels" of laughter, ranging from the polite haha to a deranged hahahahahahaha."

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It happens all the time; so surely you or someone you know can relate to poor Rachael Ryan’s plight?

The 23-year old from Portlaoise is apparently not alright with the decision of her best friend Katy to settle down with her boyfriend.

Taking matters into her own hands, Rachael took to Facebook in an effort to find a replacement.

The electrician decided that after Katy and her boyfriend Daniel made things official this week, she was going to need someone to fill the Katy-shaped void in her life.

She is careful to stress that she is very happy for the pair and wishes them the best of luck in the future.

However, she is not going to let her talk fall on deaf ears: “Sadly, I have lost the person that is always there 24/7, to listen to me talk sh*te,” she wrote, “since Katy does not have the hours to keep up with me, a ‘new best friend’ position has opened up.”

Speaking to the Irish Mirror Rachael says that she wrote the post “for the craic” after seeing news of the new couple’s status all over social media. She added that the reaction to her own post was something she never expected.

She explained that both Katy and Daniel have taken the joke well (good to know) and that she knows Katy isn’t disappearing forever:

“Even though Katy has a boyfriend, she’ll always be my best friend.”

Do you think you have what it takes to be Racheal’s new BFF? Well, you better check out some of the criteria first, because Racheal is not messing around.

No time-wasters, please. Rachael says if you think you have what it takes you can add her on Snapchat: youngryaners 

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Mark Zuckerberg and Dr Priscilla Chan are expecting their first child together, he announced today – on Facebook, of course.

The baby, a girl, will arrive later this year. 

In a picture which accompanied the online post, Mark and a radiant Priscilla can be seen standing alongside their beloved pup, a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast.

Mr Zuckerberg, one of the world's richest men with a net worth of €42.5bn, also opened up about Priscilla's three heartbreaking miscarriages. 

"We've been trying to have a child for a couple of years and have had three miscarriages along the way," he admitted,

In a candid confession, the 31-year-old continued: "You feel so hopeful when you learn you're going to have a child. You start imagining who they'll become and dreaming of hopes for their future.

"You start making plans, and then they're gone. It's a lonely experience.

"Most people don't discuss miscarriages because you worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you – as if you're defective or did something to cause this. So you struggle on your own."

However, Mark added that when he began to open up about their experiences to friends and family, he realised they were far from alone. And thankfully, he also learned that "nearly all" went on to have "healthy children after all".

Dr Chan, 30, is a qualified doctor who is currently training to become a paediatrician. She is fluent in three languages – English, Spanish, and Cantonese.

"Our good news is that our pregnancy is now far enough along that the risk of loss is very low and we are very hopeful," the Facebook CEO also said. 

"Cilla and our child are both healthy, I'm extremely excited to meet her and our dog Beast has no idea what's coming.

"In our ultrasound, she even gave me a thumbs up 'like' with her hand, so I'm already convinced she takes after me."

He concluded with: "We're looking forward to welcoming her into the world and sharing more soon when she's ready to come out and meet everyone!"

The couple met as Harvard classmates – queuing for the bathroom at a fraternity party – and dated for nearly a decade before their May 2012 wedding. 

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Some people find it pretty hard to imagine life without Facebook. But with the almost constant updates and changes, it can get a little hard to manage. The simple things we used to be able to do with one click now look entirely different, or they’ve disappeared entirely.

We discovered some Facebook tricks so that you’re living your best social media life.

Make Messenger more accessible

We have too many apps already! Why did they think we wanted to have two separate Facebook apps? You can declutter your app situation by using the browser on your smartphone to open the messenger app without the actual app. You can see a second method here.

 

Go incognito

Disable the “seen” feature in Facebook messages so nobody will ever invade your privacy again. You can also use it to avoid particular things, but that’s none of our business. Check here if you use Google Chrome, and here for non-Chrome users.

 

Say bye-bye to ads

Stop annoying Facebook ads from stalking you by turning off the tracking through the app. Check the “Limit Ad Tracking” button. It makes a world of difference. There’s a number of other ways you can do it here.

 

Amp up your search skills

Facebook search is great. But if you want to really step up your search game you can use the Facebook graph search. The results will make your day. You can search for specific things like 'gyms near me with the best playlists', and so on.

 

Use GIFs

Who doesn’t love a good GIF? If you haven’t been able to express your emotions with animations yet, then all you need to do is head to Giphy. Do a search for what you want, copy the URL and paste it into either your status or a comment.

Note: they’re not officially GIFs as Facebook banned those, because they hate us having too much fun, but this is the next best thing.

 

Get a privacy check-up

Just to make sure your privacy settings are exactly how you want them, go and utilise Facebook’s three-step privacy review. Considering all the updates that happen it’s a good idea, especially if you want to disable that pesky photo search feature.

 

Find your friends when they're nearby

No, you don’t need to tell all 600 of your friends where you are, unless you really want to. The Nearby Friends feature however doesn’t just let people know where you are. You can make a private trusted friends list that will allow you to check if your friends are nearby. No more FOMO.

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Emma Murphy caught the attention of millions yesterday when she spoke out against her estranged partner, Francis Usanga.

In a six-minute long video clip posted to Facebook and later viewed millions of times, the Dublin mother-of-two spoke of the physical and mental abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her ex-partner.

But in conversation with The Irish Sun today, Mr Usanga, a fitness instructor and gym owner, denies many of her allegations.

Although he admits infidelity – indeed, a child he fathered is due to be born to another woman next week – he denies ever punching Ms Murphy.

"Yes I did push her. I pushed her, I didn't punch her," he explains to the newspaper. "It was just the force."

"I did sleep with someone else. But I did not punch and I absolutely did not split her head open.

"I know nobody will believe me but I am not a violent person. I never, ever want to hurt anyone," he added.

Mr Usanga, 28, is well-known in Dublin body-building and exercise circles and has appeared as a fitness expert on RTE's Today programme.

One school-friend of Ms Murphy's also exclusively told SHEmazing! that they believe Emma was cheated on with more than one woman.

"He would meet a lot of clients at his gym and certainly there were women afterwards who claimed they had sex with Francis while he was with Emma.

"More than one woman afterwards said they were pregnant too."

They added: "He's a big guy – he obviously looks after himself and really focuses on weight-training; he'd pack a lot of punch, certainly. You wouldn't square up to him, put it that way."

The fitness instructor, a former Mr International Ireland, furthermore told The Sun that his business has been impacted by Emma's video.

“My business is now destroyed," he said. "I’ve clients demanding their money back. I don’t know what to do."

He says he believes Emma's black eye is a result of the fall she maintained after he pushed her. "She fell like, either on the car or the ground," he explained.

Yesterday, singer Sinead O'Connor took to her Facebook page to offer her support to Ms Murphy. Sharing her video, she called her an "extremely brave and inspiring young woman."

She went on to state: "Anyone who would hit the mother or father of their children is also definitely going to hit the children.

"That's the other reason to leave." Sinead added that she reckoned Emma deserves a "knighthood".

By chance, just last year Francis appeared in Sinead's 8 Good Reasons video. He even posted a snap of him with the singer on his website.

 

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Sinead O'Connor has always been an activist – and she's currently very publicly supporting Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.

Following an incident in late January at her home, the same townhouse she once shared with her late mother, 22-year-old Ms Brown is currently being cared for at a hospice facility in Atlanta.

She subsequent brain damage is believed to be extensive, and she has not been conscious in months.

In recent days, Bray-resident Sinead has changed her profile picture on Facebook to one of Bobbi Kristina. Her cover photo also shows the young woman with Whitney.

The 48-year-old, still best-known for Nothing Compares To You, has furthermore been dedicating songs to Ms Brown, who is believed to be dying.

Her first message of support was seemingly posted last Thursday, a day after Bobbi Kristina was moved to hospice care. And yesterday, Sinead posted Born Again and Somebody – both sung by R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders.

Sinead's fans have also been acknowledging the support she's offering.

"Whoa, what great gospel, you find the best stuff," wrote one. "I can imagine you jumping in and singing along with them… would have been pure joy. Terribly, awfully hurtful and sad situation for Bobbi Kristina, when she crosses over to the other side, her mom will be there for her again."

Another said: "Shame no one could save her, sadly this does make us all realise how sad life can be, maybe it's time to all join hands and pray for her sweet little soul." 
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"Siobhán tagged 17 new photos of you." Words that strike fear in the heart of every hungover person come Sunday morning.

It's bad enough to hav to deal with a headache and hazy memories of the night before, without the whole world having to relive your every sweaty moment in glorious technicolour via Facebook.

Luckily, the folks in Silicon Valley have heard our pleas and have finally come up with a way to ensure that the general public is not subjected to every embarrassing photo of you. Facebook may not have intended that to be the main point of their new Moments app, but for us its definitely the main perk.

Launched yesterday, Facebook's new standalone app allows you to sync and share photos with the other people in those photos, all the while keeping things as private as you like.

So if you're at a wedding, party or other event, everyone present can log into a Moments group and share their photos with other guests at the touch of a button. Gone are the days of taking the same group shot over and over with different phones and cameras – simply take it once and sync it.

As for posting the evidence to Facebook later, you can choose to share a Moments album on your Timeline or keep it private… as long as everyone agrees.

"Syncing photos with the Moments app is a private way to give photos to friends and get the photos you didn’t take," Facebook's Product Manager Will Ruben explains.

We'll definitely be giving this app a go – and setting it to "Private" for now…

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If tough wellies, the smell of silage, and good road frontage are what do it for you… Well then, boy are you in for a treat!

Three 21-year-old girls from Meath have set up The Farmers Daughters Blog to help eligible Irish farmers find love.

Carol Lawless, Rachel Daly, and Shannon Kelly-Smith, who are all farmers’ daughters themselves, have gotten more than 5,000 likes on their hilarious Facebook page.

The uproaring site often posts a Farmer Of The Day to help those who are agriculturally inclined to find their perfect match.

** FARMER OF THE DAY**Sent in by his lovely sister ,Bobby O Callaghan, a proper bachelor farmer who's in dire need of a…

Posted by Farmers Daughters Blog on Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Ms Daly and Ms Lawless explained to LMFM that they “decided that it was time to help young farmers get with other farmers. We didn’t think the page would take off the way it did, but we had 4000 followers within a week”.

The girls said they can’t believe the number of submissions they get on a daily basis of men (and the occasional woman) looking for love through the Farmer Of The Day post.

The three college students highlight the most enticing characteristics that they are looking for in an eligible farmer. These include the farmer’s acreage, type of farm, road frontage, and of course, their sparkling personalities. 

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Has Zoe Saldana found the perfect man? Definitely!

Actress Zoe has been speaking of her husband Marco’s decision to take her surname upon their marriage – rather than the other way around.

Oh, and did we mention he is really really ridiculously good-looking?

The Guardians Of The Galaxy star sits beaming on the cover of the July issue of InStyle magazine, in which she reveals how Italian artist Marco Perego took her name after the two secretly married back in the summer of 2013.

Zoe explained that she even tried to talk him out of taking her name, despite being "proud" of him.

She stated: "I tried to talk him out of it. I told him: 'If you use my name, you’re going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world,'" she told InStyle.

"But Marco looks up at me and says [she puts on a cute Italian accent]: 'Ah, Zoe, I don’t give a sheet'.”

Ms Saldana recently posted a Facebook status about her husband's decision to take her name, urging men to defy gender stereotypes.

"Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

"I’ve been made aware that a comment I made regarding my marriage has garnered some attention. I felt proud that my husband decided to take my last name as his own… and I his.

"Why is it so surprising, shocking, eventful that a man would take his wife's surname? Women have never been asked if its OK for them to give up their names – why doesn’t that make the news?

"Men, you will not cease to exist by taking your partner’s surname. On the contrary — you’ll be remembered as a man who stood by change. I know our sons will respect and admire their father more because their father lead by example."

The couple had twins boys back in November 2014, and Saldana has furthermore spoken about the challenges and changes that motherhood brings.

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She sparked waves of envy when her new husband posted a stunning bikini-clad image of her to Instagram.

Honeymooning in the Maldives, Michelle Keegan’s tiny waist and toned bum were on full display.

Certainly, there could be no doubt that the actress’s pre-wedding fitness regime had really paid off.

However, it seems that some fans were less than impressed – calling the 28-year-old out for being too thin.

Indeed, the star took to Facebook to express her anger at the insinuation.

In the post, which has now been deleted, she said: “Calling me ‘anorexic’ and ‘too skinny’ is just as bad as someone being called ‘fat’ and ‘obese,'" she wrote. 

She also insists that despite her incredible body, she doesn't diet. 

“I personally do not believe in dieting… and think that you should just eat everything in moderation.

“For example if I have an unhealthy lunch, I’ll have a healthy dinner and vice versa.”

She furthermore revealed that she ate three burgers this weekend, although she did highlight that ordinarily, she makes sure she gets to the gym three times a week. 

Previously, E! News presenter Giuliana Ranic has also spoken about the criticism she faces for her size 6 figure. In March, she said she’s “sick of being bullied” over her appearance.

And actress Tara Reid has declared: “I’m just a small-boned girl. I eat, I eat, I eat. Some people that eat too much, you yell at them that they’re fat.

"You want to get mad at me because I’m skinny? Great, get mad at me. I am what I am.”

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Now that Facebook is the best thing since sliced bread, everyone's getting in on the action. It's a great way to keep in contact with people but we have to admit, there are some family members and as much as we love them, we do wish we could send their friend requests into cyberspace and out of our personal space.

1. The person who leaves forty x's after everything
"So proud xxxxxxxxxxx" "Mum, I'm upstairs, just tell me in person." 

2. The one who gets more likes on their comment than you did on the original status
Probably your dad with some witty, sarcastic remark. Good one Dad.

3. The ones who bring photo's of you and your friends from 2009 back onto people's news feeds
"Lovely photo!" Thanks, you're not the first person to appreciate my braces, middle parting, bebo stunnah pose and excess chin flab.

4. The "You look so grown up xx" person
Uh sorry but, have we met?

5. The "Oooh, is this your boyfriend?" on pictures from a night out person
Well that was the plan, but it's definitely not going to happen now. 

6. The "Tell your dad I…" person
Tell him yourself, us younger folk are only here for the odd creep. 

7. People who comment on a wall post from your crush
Excuse me, we're trying to fall in love here, please take your morto comments elsewhere. 

 

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Remember the days when the only thing a "smartphone" could do was let you play Snake? And a computer was something you only got to play Mavis Beacon on at school?

Things have changed a lot since then, but we got a great nostalgia kick out of this Nineties-style infomercial for "The Facebook."

Mark Zuckerberg didn't have his genius idea until 2004, but if it had happened ten years before we reckon this would have been pretty accurate.

"Simply ship a few photographs to The Facebook, they'll cover the postage, and an operator will set up your profile." So simple!

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