E-Cards are just no fun…
June 1st, 2008
I’ve noticed a big trend over the last few years. Instead of people sending birthday and christmas greeting cards, people have taken to sending e-cards instead.
Even more recently, people have switched to sending birthday “wall posts” on Facebook rather than e-cards. I logged on this morning to send one of my friends a birthday “wall post” to find out I was actually beaten by 9 other people, one of whom had obviously stayed up until midnight to be the first person to say happy birthday! From the looks of it, I think a lot of people seem to do this rather than sending paper cards! I’ll admit to doing it… it seems like a lot of effort to pop down to the local Clintons Cards and then work out which address to send it to and how much it’d cost.
I must say though, it still much prefer to recieve paper cards. There just seems to be something that makes it a lot more special and fun. Or perhaps a bit more heartfelt when they also contain a personal message.
I do still make the effort to write personalised paper cards for my closest friends. But I’d like to put this question out: do you prefer to recieve paper cards over electronic ones? Is it worth continuing to handwrite your cards or is a birthday greeting still a birthday greeting whether it was delivered by a postman or electrons?
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I’ve never sent one (I don’t think) and hopefully never will. My reason is the same as for books over e-books, although to a lesser extent.