With the growth of the number of Facebook users, people become able to create and disseminate humorous utterances by a button-click. University students who represent the mass users of Facebook in Egypt resort to the use of humour in order to release undesired feelings and emotions. The current research seeks to identify the linguistic strategies used in the chats of Egyptian University students and the influence of gender on the use of humour on Facebook. For this purpose, the researcher joined some Facebook groups of Egyptian University students. A sample of Facebook chats was randomly picked up from the different groups of Egyptian University students. The humorous chats were identified and analyzed. The results revealed that Egyptian students employ different types of linguistic strategies in their humorous posts. However, they used pragmatic strategies more than any other strategy. Also, male students tended to create and share humorous posts more than female students