Does i love you still hold the same meaning when you write ily instead?

The words "I love you" are the most beautiful words you can say to a person and the most beautiful words you want to hear from a person.. so to shorten that and use a made up abbreviation I think don't give these words justice and don't convey the same feeling.

I don't think it does.

I mean, it's fine once the fact that you love the other person has already been established (as in, you've told them that you love them verbally before), but not for a first time. I wouldn't want to be told that I was loved through Internet or text speak if my significant other had never proclaimed it before. And the "ily" is better left for casual friends, or note-passing in class, rather than when it's being used to express a genuine feeling at an important moment.

When an emotion is strong enough, concentration increases a lot more. Which means that someone who actually has those emotions would write "i love you"... and not "ily".

Love makes you want to express it. Not conserve 5 more seconds by reducing it to "ily"..

and for the record...when I don't love someone...I always text "ily" instead.

No. When you write ily, it makes a guy think that you are just saying it out of habit and didn't really mean it. It's not necessarily bad, just, it won't have the same effect as saying it in person would.

I use ily when I'm saying goodbye to my friends, so if you want it to hold serious meaning to someone, then no.

When I get comfortable in a relationship and they know I'm texting or typing quickly on my way out, I use ily, it depends on how well the person knows you.

NO the people who write "ily" are just lazy-a$$es who cannot take an extra 2.5 seconds to write out "i love you." You can't just throw around the word ''love'' so lightly like that, its too powerful a word to abbreviate.

I usually write ily to my friends cuz I think if you are saying I love you to a guy that you really do love then I think it deserves to be written out.

No, I don't really think "ily" gives the same warm feeling as if you were to have written it out, like, "I love you". Writing it out makes it seem more genuine, rather than "ily" which sort of makes it seem like you want to say it quickly, half-assed, and get it over with. But that's just my opinion. :)

i think that it doesn't say the same as i love you does because when you say ily then it doesn't take as much time to write and it could also be "i like you". if you really do love the person then you should tell them in person as much as you can. i broke up with my boyfriend recently and then one thing i regret is that i didn't tell him i loved him in person very often.

No. If you really love that person, you can take an extra 3 seconds out of your life to write it for them.

ily is just a teen texting thing.

ily can mean someone doesnt want 2 say it