To ask if you put kisses at the end of messages

[bamboofield]

Even to people you barely know?
I've noticed a lot of people do this, how do you feel about it?

I don't do it myself and it wrong-foots me a little as I don't know whether they expect me to send a kiss back. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't, depending on who I'm talking to.

What do you mean @bamboofield? xxx

Only in my work emails x

I never do. It’s weird.

also my brain can’t link an x to a kiss. So to me it just reads like random x’s at the end of the message.

i genuinely thought people were using x like punctuation, instead of a full stop.

No x

I don't. I might put a heart, though.

I’m in my mid 30s in the UK and most female friends I know do this x

Only to loved ones.

I don't understand MNetters putting them at the end of messages though xx

Never at work as unprofessional

Not with strangers who do it no. That is just weird.
I have some friends who add an x and some who don't so I go with whichever.

No but have noticed plenty of people do.

I don't think it is meant to be read as a kiss, just a 'short kind ending to a message'.

With all my friends and family I do. Accidentally to my boss once and he did it back but said he assumed it was an accident but reciprocated to be polite 😆

I notice lots of people I don't know do it. I have a business on fb and lots of messages I get have xx at the end.
If people do it first I generally do it back or I feel miserable but I don't do it unless they do in case they don't.

Depends who I’m texting. As a default, no, but if someone xs me then I feel obliged to too. I have friends who have their own sign off for example a set amount/format of kisses. I don’t join in with that 😄

I do in messages to my DH and DC but otherwise no. Never. It irritates me when I get them from businesses - like the hairdresser or dog groomer confirming appointment booking x

Urgh. No need. Stop sending virtual kisses. Life can carry on pleasantly without them.

Only friends and family.
One kiss is outer friendship circle then 2 or 3 or more for inner friendship circle or if recipient needs a fluffy tone because they've got things tough.
Never knew I had a policy until you made me think about it. 🤣

Rarely, not even to my partner, doesn't bother me when people do though

Yes on social media or watsapp x

No I don't, nor does OH

Don't really give it any extra thought if someone sends them to me

Only when I mean it, so if I might kiss (or hug) them if we were having the conversation face to face. Not otherwise.

No, and I think it is really weird when people do it to me.

I don’t like doing it, but I’m very much if someone sends me a kiss - I send one back so I don’t look rude. For example, messages to my mum. She sends me two ‘xx’ and i don’t want to not send any back so I look blunt and ‘offish’ so I feel like I have to. Off my own back though, I don’t. It’s one of those things, when you’ve done it for so long with certain people, even if you no longer like it it’s ingrained in you to continue doing it as the norm.

I’ve done it by accident to a couple of people I don’t know. 😬

But no, I only use them on messages to my partner, kids and friends.

I mostly put kisses in messages to people who do the same when they message me. So that's my DP, my mum, my sister, my MIL, my SIL and a couple of my friends. I don't add kisses as a default.

I also tend to add a kiss if it's a message of congratulations, sympathy or thanks - so if I'm wishing someone happy birthday on Facebook or something, or telling someone I'm thinking of them at a difficult time, or thanking them for doing something nice, I'd always add a kiss.

Lots of people who buy things from me on Vinted and eBay add a kiss to their messages. It's always women, though, never men.

I do it to friends and family however this does mean I do it by mistake to people I don't mean to ! X