It is one thing for a man to consider me as a possible sex partner, although I rather hope they wouldn’t, but it’s something else again if any of them thought I was considering them back, as it were.
When a woman responds to a man with a friendly “c u soon :)” text message, he will take it all the way in his mind.
LOL! I can understand that. Admittedly, I’m not in the mainstream of socialization, but it seems to me that exchanging friendly text messages takes an association out of “working together politely” and into “personal interaction with room for development.”
I have an age-related aversion to using abbreviations, even when texting, although I’ve assimilated “K” and “pls.” The only people I text are my husband and my hairdresser, and my preferred colloquial signoff (if we’re going to meet) is “Seeya!”