Why do people keep putting bloody kisses in their posts?

[WomblingThree]

There seems to be a spate of it at the moment. Kisses at the end of posts, kisses littered throughout posts, using u and ur instead of you and your/you're.

It's so irritating! Kisses should be save for people you know and care about.

Maybe they took a wrong turning and meant to end up on Net Huns?!

I have nearly done it out of habit as all my friends do it on texts etc, but managed to stop myself

metalmidget I love type o negative and I am type o negative blood group which is cool, I love I don't wanna be me

It's annoying. So are posts littered with non

MN emojis.

I use kisses to end a text sentence in an informal setting - most people my age do it to most people - unless it's in a professional capacity. Otherwise someone may misinterpret and assume you are being abrupt because you're angry - it's a way to measure the tone.
It's just how messaging evolved for us.
Get off of your horse lovey x

I have JUST done this on another thread. The poster seemed anxious about her pregnancy and I just thought a few xx wouldn't hurt. But maybe I was wrong and I've caused huge offence...?!
You see flowers often enough. I don't see why kisses are so offensive. Live and let live I say...

It just replaces a full stop. (X)

@Onhold why only non MN emojis?

Because half the time they just come up as square boxes.

I found x strange to start off with, especially from mums of DDs' friends. Now I feel odd not to end with a x

This is one of the reasons I now feel too old for mumsnet. The xxx, lol's and occasional random Hun I see are fucking me right off.

Hello hun, would you like to lose a lot of weight? I have a secret! Xxxxx hell no, not those weird schemes, really know the secret. Message me hun xxxxxx i lost a trillion pounds in 30 mins xxxx

With respect OP, it's a social messaging forum, not a PhD submission.

Can I briefly ask here what people's views are about calling you dp / dh 'babe'?

Only asking as that is how I address dh verbally often, not sure why. NOstly when he is in another room or on another floor and I need him to do something. But I absolutely detest all that hon, babz, xox, mwah, etc. cringy stuff.

So shoot my but IABU to call out 'baaaaabe' can you please do x,y,z e.g.?

sorry you views about calling your dp / dh 'babe'.

Onhold oh okay I didn't know that.

spiders; doesn't bother me. I call my immediate family darling, my love, sweetheart, sweetie pie, schnookums (I know) and a whole lot more. But I wouldn't call a stranger on the internet any of those things, because we've never met. Or, for all I know, we have met irl and dislike each other. Feels disingenuous to me, to start 'hun' or 'babe'-ing people immediately as some people like to.

Hope your ok Xxx

Whilst I appreciate this is not PhD land ...there was a poster who recently littered a decent aibu with haha then lol and then xxx, I tried not to mind but I did.
Just realised that some people think lol means lots of love. That explains 'sorry about your granny lol' post on Facebook that shocked me.
I feel really old

But if you put xxx after every single message doesn't it become meaningless?

I do do kisses & hugs. Very occasionally if I really mean them.

There was a poster called xxmummyxx or something like that. I thought about asking her whether she was making a feminist statement about chromosomes but then decided against it.

"sorry about your granny lol"

Lol

A decade ago my manager replied to an email of mine with lol. I definitely fancied him (we were both single at the time) and spent ages agonising whether he meant lots of love or laugh out loud. Quite sure it was the latter. He was hot.

It's just avoid looking abrupt because they can't see you or gear you to gauge your tone. It makes sense time and smoogbs the communication.
I can't Hun though. I have never said or written Hun and never will. No one ever said it that I knew of until about 10 years ago. Has it come from America?

Smoogbs my new word for smooths

It's just avoid looking abrupt because they can't see you or gear you to gauge your tone. It makes sense time and smoogbs the communication.

It doesn't sense time or smoogb for me though, it just looks a bit daft because we don't even know if we like each other yet, let alone getting to kissing stage.