I've been messing with everyone by text

[Stiles]

By not putting an X at the end of messages. Sometimes I go the full hog and put a full stop.

So far my dad wants to know if he's upset me and my teen came down to ask if he's in trouble. 😂

I usually chat online to mainly Americans and it's not the done thing with them so thought I'd drop it completely as it's a bit daft. British people are not ready for this.

That's hilarious!

Has anyone had the horror of someone using ‘xx’ but then continuing their sentence?

TinselTinsel

I find that xx on texts are mostly pretty insincere and unnecessary. I have a friend who puts kisses on argument texts fgs! An example of one her texts is " You are an F Ct and and i will hate you til the day I die you F waste of oxygen xxxxxxx "

xxxxxx

There is a similar protocol with religious/spiritual people "stream of personal abuse, ending with love and prayers, or blessings and peace" or similar. Thinking about it I feel that probably the more angry/offensive the message the more saccharine and OTT the blessing message is.

Wow, are we really all so bored that we're worrying about whether we put a full stop at the end of a message or not??

@janj2301 Me too! I spent years learning about correct use of grammar & punctuation at school. Why on earth should I throw all that out now, and start putting an 'x' at the end of each message?? Really, don't we have more important things to worry about?

@Love2cycle An 'x' is a kiss isn't it? It could be misconstrued, I would have thought?

[quote Tzimi]@Love2cycle An 'x' is a kiss isn't it? It could be misconstrued, I would have thought?[/quote]
My friend didnt have a clue what it meant.
Wonder if other countries have been putting x's at the end of cards, letters etc like we have for years?

I always feel like the French must when you tip from formal into informal when you finally know someone we'll enough to send a x. Didn't know full stops were such a no no though!

@ILoveAnOwl Me neither, and frankly I'm astonished! A full stop is what you put at the end of a sentence. How can this be wrong?

[quote Tzimi]@ILoveAnOwl Me neither, and frankly I'm astonished! A full stop is what you put at the end of a sentence. How can this be wrong?[/quote]
I think it depends on your age and the age of your children. I have teens/young adults - a full stop started being wrong about 4 or 5 years ago I think, when the eldest was in 6th form.

My favourite way to mess with them is, instead of responding with "OK, that's fine." I send "K." It makes them froth (in good humour) and me happy. I usually get a 😡 in return.

I have a colleague who got in a lot of trouble for putting an x at the end of a message to a student of the opposite sex. The student complained and it was upheld. It wouldn’t cross my mind to end a text to anyone with an x, and they are all fully punctuated. If I got a message ending in an x from anyone at work I would feel slightly.

I had no idea this was a thing. I've only ever put an X at the end of a text when I'm sending a message to someone who has been bereaved. Can't think of any other circumstances where I'd do it. Thankfully no one I regularly text or WhatsApps puts X on their messages either, so I don't think I've offended anyone.

That should say slightly uncomfortable!

I have a colleague who puts kisses on the end of any message she knows is likely to be badly received.

First, just no, to kisses on business correspondence, but second, far from kisses showing everything is OK, thay actually mean the message isn't friendly at all.

I'm not sure if I could do this, I think I'd need to perform a review of my x hierarchy. Currently husband gets 5-6, best mate and parents get 4, close mates get 3, work mates and male best friend get 1. I never planned it but reading this read has made me realise

I only put an x at the end if I’m sending a message to someone who’s having a hard time and I’d hug them if I was there.
Otherwise, everyone just gets a full stop (or a clumsy random sign off. I’ve even signed off with ‘Hi’)

The only time I put an X at the end is if I'm being sarcastic, like "aw let me get my smallest violin out for you x" - otherwise no full stops and no Xs. All of my friends are like this and I'm glad, one of my co workers does xxxx at the end of every text, sometimes even in the middle of a text and it completely puts me off from wanting to talk to her, it's like the text equivalent of having someone sitting extremely close to you and invading your personal space 🙈

My sister and I had an argument when she left kisses off a text, it spiralled so quickly 🤣 I was like ooh what’s your problem

My MIL is so blunt in her texts and really rude to me, we’ve never really got along so I stopped being as nice in my texts and dropped the kisses. She was so disturbed by it and her texts got nicer and she started adding kisses I kept mine blunt, no kisses haha

I think if you aren’t normally an x-er then it’s ok - it’s when you suddenly stop using them that it’s a message equivalent of a flounce.

This always confuses me! I rarely ever use X's, mainly only do it if someone else does first so as to not appear rude! I also try to put the same amount of X's back, so I freak out if they change the number of X's. Are they challenging me to a duel? Do I increase, stay the same, or reduce?!

Are my texts ending with just a full stop offending people? Oh god. 😂

@Oneearringlost

Is it a young people's thing?

@Oneearringlost I sometimes wonder if young people are living on a completely different planet to the rest of us...

I get hugely irritated by "X"s in messages, they are pointless and annoying. An X means a kiss. I only use an X if I would kiss the person I'm sending a message to if I said that message in person.

This has made me laugh! So true though.