but online... i feel totally okay with expressing my hug-feelings if they happen naturally, because then that gives the person the knowledge that i feel huggy towards them. but if someone says "i want a hug" and the only way i'd have of hugging them is in text, then... i feel like responding with *hug* just sorta relegates my role to that of an http server. GET
/hug, Content-Type: application/hug, Content-Length: 1 hug.