If laughter is the best medicine . . . American adults have NOT been taking their meds. Even when it comes to laughing EMOJIS.
Recent research shows that children laugh about 400 times a day, but adults on average laugh only about 15 times.
So the website ‘BoredPanda’ analyzed 30 million geo-tagged social media messages . . . globally . . . to see who uses the laughing emojis the most.
The country that is the happiest online . . . or LAUGH-IEST . . . is: The Philippines, which had 120 expressions of laughter per 1,000 messages. In addition to emojis, they included stuff like “lol” and “hahaha.”
The U.S. did NOT do so well. Americans only expressed laughter in 49 messages per 1,000, which came in EIGHTH . . . in North America alone. (There isn’t an overall rank, but America was likely in the bottom half.)
In North America, Guatemala was the happiest online, and the rest of the Top Five are Honduras . . . Cuba . . . Haiti . . . and Nicaragua.
Of all the countries they considered, Bangladesh laughs the LEAST online . . . with just SIX laughing messages for every 1,000.
In America, the most popular laughing emoji is the “face with tears of joy.”
When broken down by U.S. states, the state that laughs the most online is: Louisiana . . . followed by Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, and Nevada.
The state that laughs the LEAST is: Vermont . . . followed by Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
(Hit up BoredPanda.com for more breakdowns, including the most commonly used laughing emojis in each country and state.)
