Do You Like to Send e-Cards?
drt on Dec 08 2007 at 2:28 pm | Filed under: Blog, Human Interest, Miscellaneous
I don’t know about you, but I hate e-card and I never sent one, at least in the past few years. If people sent me e-cards, chances are they will get an email from me, if I considered they deserved it to get an acknowledgment, thanking them but never gone to open the e-Card.
The reasons were simple. Some of my friends or relatives are still living in the other side of the world, and most of them are still using the slow speed Internet connections. It would be a burden for them with all the bells and whitsles that come with an e-card. But what I really hated most was the fact that, by sending an e-Card people actully provided our email addresses to other company without our concents, and the senders of the e-cards often still don’t have a clue, why the number of spams in their inbox keep getting bigger and bigger.
What do you think?
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The free ecard sites either provide the service to get ad revenue from the traffic or to collect the email addresses. But the paid ecard sites do not misuse the email addresses. Email services from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc, hough free, also don’t misuse the recipients’ email addresses that you provide either.
For some nice, artistic, animated ecards for Christmas, check out http://www.squidoo.com/christmas-ecards.
I totally disagree with you. I have been using and sending ecards for years, my friends and family love them and I have never had any type of increase of spam. I guess it helps to know which sites to use. The ones that appear to be ran by companies are the culprits in spreading emails around plus if I understand correctly there are robots that hack into their systems to gain that informaiton. I suspect because I only use sites that are own by a real person and not a company is what has protected me.