With out abbreviations such lol, lmao etc...would you be able to distiguish

[yourbestnightmare]

between when someone is joking and? when someone online is joking or when they are being serious. How would you go about distinguishing between serious and joking.....

 

[Ⓜichelle]

if you know the person, you can tell if theyer being serious or not. otherwise its hard to say