Has anyone else noticed that somewhere, someone wrote a new rule about cordial correspondence and it says that if you are a) a girl and b) work in any creative industry (especially fashion) you MUST sign off your email with an ‘X’ or perhaps… Xx (that was my signature for ages…) and now it seems the Gossip Girl ‘XOXO’ is making a comeback…

Honestly- what are we doing with all these X’s?!

For the longest time I reserved them only for those whom I love. The X = love. Or so it did… Now it is thrown around without a second thought. Do I ‘love’ the PR girl who just reached out to me to see if I would cover something on my site? Um, sorry, but no. Though, I do appreciate our correspondence.

So, I got to thinking a bit more about this as I had good family chats over the holidays (and this X thing had been bothering me for awhile), and a new point was raised: when you are emailing- usually it is for business. Don’t forget that! In business we don’t hang up the phone and casually drop an ‘I love you’ before signing off with our accountant or web editor… so why do we drop one in our email?

At this point, I am just rambling, so I’ll stop. Though, I do urge you to think about it- are your X’s out of control?