Over the last few decades, we have seen an accelerated technological development that has been causing a significant impact in our world. In this context, the Internet has promoted a remarkable social revolution, radically transforming our reality. On the web, we find a new life platform, where our daily experiences end up reaching new dimensions, new meanings and new proportions. The present work highlights one of these daily experiences – the humor – and aims to explore it through the discourses of young Brazilian Internet users. In order to achieve this goal, this work initially presents a brief literature discussion about humor and the contemporary scenario. The ideas discussed point to the social component of humor, and indicate that humor has important connections with reality. Then it is presented a field research held through interviews with 13 young people who access on-line humor content. The analysis of their testimonials reveals several aspects of their virtual routine, specially the large use of the Facebook social network for different purposes. Besides, it also highlights some features of the humor that is posted on the Internet. Among them, the easiness of access, the speed, the innovation, the freedom of expression and the democratic character (anyone can do) stand out. Finally, the research shows that in the actual scenario the humor serves, among other functions, as an escape valve and as an instrument of criticism and socialization.