Kisses at the end of every sentence/statement

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Whether it's texts or forum messages, what's your honest opinion of people who constantly do this? Does it give you the warm and fuzzies? Or do you just wish they wouldn't?

Depends who the sender is.
DH, close relative, close friends? Fine.
Random stranger on a message board? Weird and over-familiar.

Comes across as a bit fake and to be honest when done to excess you just come across as a bit thick.

Yep. Both kisses and emojis. Guess I can't please all of the people all of the time 🤷

Why do you need your own equivalent of a full stop£ That's ridiculous¥

See how weird and confusing it is when you swap one universally-accepted symbol for another& It's not really how communication worksπ

One of my friends says she does this to fit in (they're acquaintances not friends) and so as not to seem rude or cold in a hobby group she's in. I wouldn't do this to fit in.

Done to excess it comes across as a bit thick and it's usually the same demographic who do it.

It does feel fake too.

I find it deeply weird. Also its a slippery slope, like kissing when you meet someone - if you start doing it you have to think about when it is and isn't appropriate, did you kiss them last time, if you kiss this person should you kiss the person with them that you don't know so well, is it two or three, blah blah.

I find it a very English thing. When I lived there even my boss would end a text with kisses 🤣🤣

No idea. Xxxx

I presume these people don't understand the full stop. I despise the indiscriminate use of "x"s. I can tolerate a couple of them at the end of a message between friends to imply a friendly tone, but their random interspersion into text is an abomination.

I've got into the habit of doing this and I need to stop as it's a bit cringe!

Totally agree with the above quote! It's absolutely rife in Facebook groups.

One x at the end of a sentence to someone close is fine, but not multiple xxx as a replacement for full stops.
Apparently it conveys a friendly register as due to the way we communicate socially by short texts, full stops are now seen as overly formal and rude. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563215302181

However, British people have taken it one step further by not only getting rid of the full stop, but going one unnecessary step further and replacing it with x.

And don't get me started on the capital X for a collaboration! Instead of let's say 'Kate Moss for Topshop', it's bloody 'Topshop X Kate Moss' everywhere!

Its odd on every message but in a final end of conversation, i think its fine. Family close friend only. Not in a work or talking to a builder situation!!!

Thankfully my friends don't do this and most of the Facebook groups I'm in any 'xhuns' are in a minority (I like that American and male friends never do this). If ever a single 'x' is used then something serious has happened and it's genuinely meant.

Facebook is the worst for it, I agree. There was a cleaning group (I know! Not Mrs H at least!) I was in for a while and it was rife there with the 'x used as punctuation.

I don't like that some now think it's what British people do, when I feel it's in a minority. It's not very stereotypically British all the 'xhun' is it.

I use them on here quite rarely if it's a distressing post & I want to empathise with the OP. Not gonna change!

I enjoy the odd emoji to explain the sentiment of the message as due to autism I don't always catch if something is a joke or sarcasm.
As for the kisses on the end, I understand them when you are ending a message such as "see you later x" but some people in my family use them on literally every text. I don't see the point.

One woman I know even uses them on the end of everything she writes on Facebook. I can see her comments on random groups and no matter the topic, there is a x at the end. In fact, she always puts two.

I don't mind an x at the end of a text but I get irrationally angry when people use them as full stops! A big paragraph with an x between each sentence!

It’s when you have an entire exchange of messages punctuated by them that it gets ridiculous and irritating:

Are you free for coffee on Saturday? X
Can’t do Saturday but I’m free Sunday x
Sunday is fine for me too x
What time? X
Depends where you want to meet? X
Shall we go to Costa? X

etc to the end of time. Totally inane. And the people who are offended by a lack of xxs need to have a word with themselves.

There are bigger problems in the world

There are smaller ones too

I hate it, as it doesn't make sense. Why would we be kissing after every sentence.

I follow suit though. If someone does it to me I just do it back.
I've had friends think I'm in a mood with the because I didn't put kisses. I should have just said I don't do them but I didn't and now I feel like I have to put them just to show I'm not in a mood.

I couldn't give a shite either way. I used to have a partner who used to get very upset if I didn't send at least three kisses with every text I sent (yes, he specified). What a twat.

I wonder if they're the same people who say 'love you' whenever a vague friend or acquaintance is saying goodbye. Horribly fake. None of my close circle say this sort of thing, but will actually hug or some sort of physical contact goodbye instead.

I think it’s somewhat of a class marker.

I think so too.

My friend does it, even if she sends multiple messages one after another. they all have 2 kisses. ridiculous and childish but doesn't hurt me