How do you go about understanding the emotion conveyed through text?

The words a person write can easily tell if the person is in bad mood or in high spirit. Having been in the virtual world for a long time and interacting with faceless people on screen I have learned to picked up signals through the words I read.

Usually it’s really hard to tell…which is why I always use emoticons. For example: If someone sends me “Hey.” it sounds really clipped and harsh, but they might not mean it that way at all. “Hey :)” just seems so much nicer, you know? I find it really hard to convey any emotions through text without them.

Well, If I kno the person well, like my boyfriends for example, he has phrases and things that he says that I he says in personand through text so I know what he means by it and what moods he’s in and I know how he is in different moods so it’s pretty easy to tell, but over te internet with people you dont know in person, it’s hard to tell.

**Know- Boyfriend(I ony have one) I really need a new keyboard.

well, I find you need to know the person well, and text them alot before you get to know the way they will type when they are happy or if they are mad/sad/upset. For example my friend types: Heeey :) When shes happpy/normal, and if you get a Hi, or Hey. you know your in for crap xD Aha, hope this helps you some !

I find it very difficult so I just try not to make any assumptions