# Do you put kisses at the end of your texts? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398 "2010-07-20T22:01:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/41 "2010-07-21T16:46:21Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > Wait, haven’t you at least seen it on birthday cards, etc.? I’d probably have done that as a pre-teen or something, but can’t imagine bringing it into texting where most people seem to think you win valuable prizes if you cut out as many letters/punctuation marks as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/42 "2010-07-21T17:01:04Z")
Every time I text my wife, I close with XOXO. Never for anyone else. American. Joe ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/43 "2010-07-21T17:05:24Z")
The closes thing I’ve done is put Mwah somewhere in there. The wifey loves it, for some reason, so I do it. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/44 "2010-07-22T02:05:37Z")
I only have so many characters per text. Why waste them by putting xx at the end of the text? I give him plenty of kisses IRL, so I don’t need to give him any more in texts. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/45 "2010-07-22T04:48:53Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > (Yes XXX has the same meaning over here and I only ever do one, two or four.) What does xxx mean other than three kisses? I’m a Kiwi and only send kisses to my wife. In fact we have an understanding that if one of us ends a text with “xxx”, then that is the last text on the subject and a reply is not expected. We did it to avoid getting in to meaningless text “conversations” that rambled because neither of us was comfortable with not replying to the last text from the other. It’s the text equivalent of the radio-telephony “OUT”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/46 "2010-07-22T06:30:17Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > What does xxx mean other than three kisses? > > I’m a Kiwi and only send kisses to my wife. In fact we have an understanding that if one of us ends a text with “xxx”, then that is the last text on the subject and a reply is not expected. We did it to avoid getting in to meaningless text “conversations” that rambled because neither of us was comfortable with not replying to the last text from the other. It’s the text equivalent of the radio-telephony “OUT”. Ever heard of X-rated movies? Triple X is three times that. OP: No. I’ve seen people who always put smileys at the end, but not kisses. In texts, it would just be yet another thing to make it take longer to type. If you’re going to have to type “i luv u”, you’d think you’d be being so efficient that adding an extra meaningless addition would be avoided. Then again, I do say “I love you” at the end of phone conversations if I do love the person. You never know–it might be the last thing they ever hear you say. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/47 "2010-07-22T08:25:17Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > With some people it’s such habit that they would do it every time. I’d probably only do it for the first and last texts. ‘Hey, pick up some milk’ looks curt to my British eyes. I do agree with this. While my friends and housemates might to an “x”, I would probably say “Thanks!” or something like that, but I agree that no softening signoff seems a bit brusque. ---
**Author:** ![ColdPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@ColdPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/48 "2010-07-22T09:53:25Z")
British. Yes to my wife or other female who I’m close to, generally no to others. I once, while drunk, added a couple to the end of a text to someone I wanted to meet for a _cough_ transaction. That could have been embarrassing but he didn’t mention it. ---
**Author:** ![History\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b19c9b/32.png) [@History\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/49 "2010-07-22T13:35:50Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > What does xxx mean other than three kisses? > \ … It’s the text equivalent of the radio-telephony “OUT”. This strikes me as a very good idea. Also, I’ve been following how many folks who do include kisses always use ‘x’. Having not really participated in texting during the early pay-by-character-count phase or with phones without keyboards, I never adopted any sort of shorthand to my messages. I spell out everything. When I send my girl a kiss in a text I always use: _kiss_ - like denoting an action in an old-school chatroom. Anyone else use a longer form for sending kisses? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398/50 "2010-07-22T14:48:25Z")
Well, I shouldn’t say “most of my friends,” but some do, and it seems a little contrived. I have one female friend who goes a step further and ends her text conversations with “KISSES!” It would almost be too mean to criticize her, though, she means well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-put-kisses-at-the-end-of-your-texts/547398.md?page=2)