When Smilies Go Wrong

I've never liked this smiley: <3

It does not look like a heart. It looks like a piece of Tolberone with two round tumours on it, or the top view of a horizontal nose. If it were to symbolize a heart, it should then be more of a broken heart, with the big white space in the middle of it and all.

Also when people say: "oMG I luv u <3". When you express your love to someone, you usually don't tell them: I love you lesser than 3. This can imply that, on the grand list of people he/she loves, you're in the fourth position or lower. How gratifying. Or maybe it just implies that he/she has an unhealthy obsession with the number 3 and you have to understand that you'll always be beneath the number 3 in his/her mind in order to have a healthy relationship.

OK I'm done now.