I don't like E-cards

[Rossluck]

I received an E-card for my birthday recently and I could barely be bothered following the URL to look at it. I hate these things. They seem so impersonal and slack. You get a computer generated email telling you that if you waste your time clicking on "this link", it'll take you to a page where you can read some spam then click on another link that taked you to "YOUR CARD". Somewhere on this page something happens (three pigs sang a song in my case recently) and the person who sent it typed out a quick note. To me this is the card you send someone you don't have much time for.

The person who sent it (sister) then complained to other members of my family that I hadn't thanked her for the card she ... sent. I immediately sent an email thanking her but later realised I should have thanked her with an E-card!


Does this attitude make me especially old fashioned or out of touch? What do you think of those cards?

[Gra]

I Dont Follow them.... There is a virus going round at the moment. Its propagation method is to send you a message that you have received an E-Card. When you click on the link, it infects your system. I get about 4 of these per day at the moment, they automatically get sent to the Junk directory....

[craigb]

Never received one.

[silentC]

The whole card thing is a waste of time and money if you ask me. Especially at Christmas, where you agonise over who to send them to, then you get one from someone you didn't send one too, so you race of to buy one and send it (or send them an E-card).

So you pick out a card for someone that has words on it that you didn't write and are the same words sent to countless other people by other people you have never met, or sometimes by other people to the same person you are sending yours to.

If you go to our local news agency, you're lucky if there are 3 "Happy Birthday to my wife" cards and you know that every other bloke in town is giving the same card to his missus on her birthday because the other two are too wet.

The whole thing is a waste of time and money, so in that light, I don't think that an E-Card is any worse and if anything is better because it's free and doesn't waste any paper. It wont be long before you can plug in your birthday book and it will automatically send one out to everyone without you being involved.

Dumb and pointless. But miss one anniversary or wife's birthday and see what happens!

[Rossluck]

I agree Silent. I think that a simple email or phone call saying "happy whatever" and we hope you have a nice day and so on would be a better alternative. To me an E-card is like getting a printed note in your letter box saying that there's a greeting card hidden in your yard somewhere if you'd care to look for it ....

Anyway, if they make a "grumpy old men" series in Oz, I'm going to audition .

[zenwood]

I delete e-card messages immediately. Actual cards would go in the bin immediately too, if no-one was watching. Even so, they go in the bin as soon as possible. Hate the whole card thing! Bah! Humbug!

For a hilarious take on the whole 'card' culture, see Kevin James Sweat the Small Stuff. Scenario: person gives card, and stands there looking at you making sure you read every word. Thinks to self: "geez, this is like homework . . ."

an E-card is like getting a printed note in your letter box saying that there's a greeting card hidden in your yard somewhere if you'd care to look for it ....

Or perhaps like getting a note in your letter box saying there's a card hidden somewhere amongst the junk mail.