How to Make a Hug on the Computer

You can send a text hug to someone with your computer.

When you want to express your affection or love to a person but you are too far away to do it in person, you can still reach out by sending a text "hug" with your computer. People use emoticons by typing characters and symbols on their computer keyboard when writing emails, text messages and posts on website forums. Making a hug on your computer will help you get across the message of your emotional support to someone when you can't do it in person.

Instructions

1. Launch your email, text message or Web browsing application on your computer.

2. Create a new email or text message, or create a new post online on a Web page with your browser.

3. Type the word "hug" inside sets of parentheses to give someone a literal text hug: "((hugs))."

4. Type a colon and "Less Than" symbol with an upper-case "D" as in ": D<" to send someone a figurative hug.

5. Type a series of symbols including dashes, carets, underscores and parentheses to depict yourself hugging someone with open arms: ">----(^_^)----<."

References

• Canonical Smiley and 1-Line Symbol List; James Marshall; 2008
• CSG Network: Text Message Shorthand
• ChatSlang: Hugs Emoticons