Hoho's Instead of Haha's For The Holiday

There are so many different ways to express emotion over text these days. Whether the sender uses caps lock to REALLY get their point across, or the simple usage of acronyms to share their information. No one made it more clear that acronyms are even sneaking into our everyday life more than the adorable little girl from the Cingular commercials who when asked by her mother who she was texting over 50 times per day she proclaimed, "Idk, my bff Jill."


Flip phone at the end? How primitive they seem now. 

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of using acronyms in text messages, but one thing that most of us can agree on is how to correctly get a "I am laughing" across in a text message. I am usually pretty strict to the different variations of "Haha" to get my feedback of humor across, but others use the many other tried and true methods. Lol, lmao, haha, hehe, rotfl, etc. If anyone needs to look up what any of those mean, you may be too old to read this or even understand where this is headed. Buckle up.

Since I mainly stay with the variations of "haha", here is a simple breakdown of my stages of texted laughter:
Haha - I find what you said funny. I may have smirked, but even if not, I still found it funny. When I use this, what I said may have also been intended as a joke.
Hahaha - I'm smiling now. Maybe a chuckle. Definitely enjoyed what I just read.
Hahahaha+ - I'm actually laughing. People around me are now interested at what I find so funny
HAHAHA - This is absolute laugh out loud funny to me. Whatever you just said may have made me pee a little and I most likely have tears in my eyes. Strong belly laugh here.

Since we are right in the climax of the Christmas season, I have been trying my best to squeeze in as much Christmas cheer as possible before New Years. Then I had this bright idea that I encourage everyone to at least try once.

In honor of the holiday season, I will be switching all texted "haha's" to "hoho's" effective immediately for the rest of my life.
— Dave Brisbane (@d_briz) December 12, 2013

I have been doing it ever since. Every time I include a "Hohoho" in a text message, I am met immediately with a slew of "Hahaha's". If you are keeping track at the breakdown of texted laugher above, you will see that "Hahaha" may not bring actually laughs, but I am at least helping to spread some smiles. To be honest, that is all I've ever wanted is to make people laugh and be happy. At the very least make them smile. It's these small moments that make jokes like these so worth while.

So head on out and try the "Hoho's" for "Haha's" with your friends & family. Or you can be a Grinch and stick to "Haha." Your choice. Let me know your results!

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