Sunday, December 18, 2011

Warning- rant on e-cards.. may offend those that like to use them!

YUP. E-cards. Ok, so I get that sometimes it's nice to send out a fun little "hey I was thinking about you" message... and in these cases, using an "e-card" is acceptable as it's much more fun than just an email. But, let me make something clear, the use of e-cards for birthdays, holidays, anniversary's and the like is just rude. I said it. RUDE. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that everyone in your address book got the same cheesy, "I hope you have a great holiday season. Love, X, X, X, and X" message in the card. I understand that it's the same thing when you MAIL a card to someone, but at least when you mail a card, that means you took the time to actually, with your own hand, write in the card, address each envelope and affix a stamp to it. They may be standard across the board, but at least you took time with each individual one instead of hitting "copy/paste" and "send"after filling in a few blanks to make sure that everyones names are on the card.

The point- e-cards suck and are a very distanced, disjointed way of wishing someone any type of happy holiday. To the person that sent that damn thing (though I highly doubt you'll ever see this blog), take me off your damn mailing list. To everyone else, sorry you had to "listen" to my feelings about these atrocious things.

3 comments:

  1. Sorry you were offended by the sender. However I disagree that it's rude. I don't know about others habits, but when I send out a card I take the time to find the perfect one and write an extra message in it. I don't have addresses for all my friends and I can't afford to do normal mail right now anyway. Times are tough. So I'd just take it as the good gesture it was meant to be.

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  2. I guess I should have clarified- this is a person I've known and practiced with for almost 6 years. The e-card was rude, coming from her. If times are that tough, she could have called or done something more personal- even a facebook message!- than a group "Happy Holidays" (happy holidays as to not offended those that do not follow/believe a pagan path) ecard.
    Kudos to you for taking the time to make your cards something nice, I really appreciate that. Unfortunately, my experiences with getting ecards are always negative ones and never fail to leave a bad taste in my mouth. =(

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  3. I have to say, I agree with you... (hi new follower here! lol) I hate ecards. I get them every year around Christmas. I send them out to family and friends, we do the whole cheesy family photo thing. LOL
    We are all much too reliant on the internet and digital communication.

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