• CULTURE,  Misc.

    How We Laugh on Facebook

    Facebook collected information from a week in May to see how we laugh on Facebook. Collected from monitored comments, posts, etc. we have the main contenders broken up into graphs. The graph Facebook created says 15% of people include laughter in a post at least once a week. The most used laugh is “haha” with 51.4%, followed by emojis with 33.7%, following “hehe” with 12.7%. The least common is “lol”, which only makes up 1.9% of laugher online. See more sassy graphs on the Facebook blog.

  • Russian Gay Emoji Ban
    CULTURE

    Vladimir Putin Wants to Ban Gay Emojis

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has placed strict rules on all gay propaganda, and Apple products arent getting a free pass. Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor claims that an investigation into LGBT emojis has already been set into place. Maxim Ksenzov Mikhael Marchenko, deputy head of Roskomnadzor claims they gay emojis are infultrating the youth, he states “the spread on social media of untraditional sexual relations among minors” that “denies family values” and “forms disrespect for parents and other family members.” Does this mean Apple products may eventually be banned from Russia? I guess we will see what happens.