You have a point there. It is definitely harder to hear tone in text. But does that mean one should always put in a </s> tag? It may ruin the joke. As an exam

You have a point there. It is definitely harder to hear tone in text. But does that mean one should always put in a </s> tag? It may ruin the joke. As an example, this was one (or two) of my highest-voted HN comments ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 If I'd added a '/s' tag to those comments, it would have spoiled it, wouldn't it? Part of what made it funny was that I played it straight, and people believed I was sincere almost to the end - or beyond. But now I fear I have led us far off topic. Back to our regularly scheduled discussion of Facebook, watchful defender of our privacy.