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.
Every time I text my wife, I close with XOXO. Never for anyone else. American.
Joe
The closes thing I’ve done is put Mwah somewhere in there. The wifey loves it, for some reason, so I do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.