What does <3 Mean?

Although myspace is not very popular to the real cool kids (I mean web geeks that think they are cool - who are really just out of touch with today's teenagers.), 50M kids can't be wrong.

Anyways, awhile ago, realizing that Hollywood Undead:Nirvana::Myspace:MTV (and hearing that eventually myspace would start a record label and sign them), I made a post about them. I get about 500 visitors per day from google searching for Hollywood Undead. They've also taken over my comments.

In many of their comments, thy write "<3". What the hell does that mean? It is really bothering my wife, who I will now heretofore refer to as "Amy", cause that's her name and I hate typing "my wife". It sounds so impersonal. Anyways, not knowing has consumed her. And being that my 29th birthday is right around the corner (November 28th. Sports cars accepted as gifts.), I have no clue what it means.

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

Comments

[Gregory Narain]

I think it means wuv, as in L-O-V-E.

Look at it closely, it's a heart ;)

<3 greg

[Michael Fagan]

quite right. most myspacers don't know to use &hearts; (♥)

Hmn, I'm guessing the encoding isn't going to go through the way I want it to...

[Michael Fagan]

Okay, I take that back. It didn't work in the preview, but it posted okay ;-)

[Peter Caputa]

So, how do you do it?

[sambakza]

♫♫♫ it's all in the coding! ♫♫♫
(its easy just to use Character Map)

[Kate]

WTH does <3 mean? please help it is driving me crazy!

[Dossy Shiobara]

Turn your head 90 degrees clockwise (to the RIGHT, duh) and look at it.

<3

It's a l33t0 m0zquit0 ASCII "heart". Just like :-) when your head is 90 degrees counter-clockwise (I'll let you figure this one out) is supposed to look like a smiling face.

Now you know.

[Bobby Fisher]

What does 8==D~~ mean...im so confused

[Mike]

What does 8==D~~ mean...im so confused

Just look at it.... squirt squirt jizz jizz

[Nick]

It look like balls (8) and a dick with ==D

just a guess though you tart.

[dot]

<3 means love

[Stec]

I did a google and this is where I found my answer thanks! Exact same thing I got just that in a comment on My Space and scratched my head thinking WTF!?!? LOL

[zorglubb]

thanks for the explanation, been wondering about that one for a while

[zorglubb]

thanks for the explanation, been wondering about that one for a while

[amber/ak]

how do you make that heart thing, like the ♥ (i just copied and pasted from someone else, idk how to do it tho and im not sure whether it will even turn out) not the <3 ?? we're hopeless!!!!

thanks 4 the <3 explanation- it was really beginning to frustrate me! and jesus loves each of you with an unfailing love ;^)

[emo]

oh i though ♥ meant hearts and <3 meant sumthin for emo people

[Ben]

it looks more like a flower

looks more like an ice cream cone with boobs

[Trevayne]

you're all drunk... go to sleep dummies....

[Jujubee]

OMG thanks people and thank god GOOGLE exists i finally found out what that stupid <3 was gosh.

[Ashely]

thank god i finally figured out what that ment ppl have been sending that thing to me and im goin uhh.....oooooook lol

[simplymike]

so does

[alex]

1337 |5 $() |23+/-\|2|)3|) ... thnx for the explanation tho.. been buggin me too.

[Tomo]

to make symbols such as ♂♀♪♀♫☼►◄↕‼◙☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○ you just hold "alt" n press a number on the numlock numbers. eg alt+3=♥ alt+169=® wow its magic....