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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Christmas Q
Is it ever considered offensive to write "xmas" instead of Christmas?
Often times, I find myself wanting to abbreviate the word so badly, but sometimes I wonder if it will offend someone. Not you guys particularly, but people in general.
I'm talking about using it in a casual way, like if I was writing a post on here and wrote "...and then I went to my friend's house, and she was decorating her xmas tree..."
I'm not talking about sending Christmas cards and writing "Merry Xmas!" in them. Obviously I would not do that!
I know this is a silly question but I've always wondered this! 
Re: Christmas Q
I'm not offended by people writing or saying X-Mas, but I'm sure there are many who are citing that X-Mas defeats the the whole Christ-mas thing.
But then again, I play along because it is a fun, jovial time.
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It's often offensive to some people who don't know the origin of its use. They assume the "x" means "blank" or "delete" or something, I'm not sure.
I don't often use wikipedia to explain, but here it is.
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I think it should only be used if the short hand is necessary. You wouldn't type u or r if you could avoid it right? I'd save x-mas for text messages. (but i'm overly cautious about offending people
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Also along the lines of what moon said, it kind of defeats the whole Christ part or it being Christmas.
Ha. Is it bad that it never would have occurred to me that writing X-Mas possibly could be offensive to someone?
I seldom abbreviate words so it wouldn't be an issue for me, but seriously when I read your post I was like "Huh? Why would that be offensive?"
Sometimes I wonder how many people I have offended over the years and never realized........
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