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Recent T-Mobile phone research has found that nearly a quarter of men regularly include a kiss (‘x’) in texts to their male friends. The male affection surfing the cellular waves has born a new name for demonstrative male mates: metrotextual.
“Metrotextuality” is most common among 18-24 year old males, of whom roughly 75 percent regularly ending texts with a kiss, and 48 percent claiming the practice is now commonplace among their friends, reports Reuters.
The most common (popular among 52 percent) sign-off is a single, lower case ‘x,’ while one in three choose to go above and beyond with the triple ‘xxx.’ A large capital ‘X is the happy medium, preferred by 17 percent.
Ron Bracey, a clinical psychologist, suggests that the technological affection results from the ease and informality of text messaging: “the advent of mobile phones and social media means more communication is done non-verbally, and through this it seems men can more easily share their feelings with others—especially their male friends,” he tells Reuters.
Young men are not the exception, either, Reuters discovered; one in ten men over the age of 55 tend to finish a text to another male with a kiss. Says 25 year old Nick Kirkham, “Apart from my boss or a work client, there’s no one I wouldn’t send a kiss on text to.”
Who knew that the way to a man's heart wasn't his stomach after all? Just give him a cell phone!
[via Reuters]
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