When you care enough to send the very worst.

I have a lot of pet peeves. This is fine in some cases because some of the people I love the most in my life, people who have become important to me through the years are just like me in that sense. They’re prickly people (not to be confused with Pricks). They just like to pull aside the veneer of banality and insincerity and view things as they really are.

One of my pet peeves is the ‘E-card.’

I got an E-card notification today and straight away deleted it. I just won’t even waste my time going through the hassle of logging into a site to view one of these things. It used to be they were bad enough before Flash was so prevalent but now, they’re just insufferable. I sometimes think it would be worth it not to have Flash at all if we could avoid these inane animations that are part and parcel of the E-card.

The other thing that bothers me is to view these stupid things, in many cases you have to create an account and give up more of your personal information to another stupid website just so you can get even more spam in the future.

To me, an E-card borders on the insulting.

It says, I couldn’t be bothered to drag my ass out from behind the computer and get and spend the time getting a physical card. I couldn’t be bothered to actually take out the time to write you a note and address an envelope and put a stamp on it. It tells you everything you need to know about how important you are to the person sending it.

Look at it this way, how do you view receiving email versus someone sending you a letter?

I’m sure some of it has to do with my age. In an era where people text message back and forth to one and other (even breaking up with each other via text message), it can hardly be at all surprising people send E-cards. Yet, I like acknowledgment of a holiday or a birthday to come commercial free and E-cards don’t.

We’ll be getting to your greeting right after a short ad from our site sponsor!

When I go to pick up the mail whether it’s at the box or at the house, there are certain things that never even make it out of the building (at the box) or into the house. They immediately go into the recycling bin. E-cards are like other forms of spam and get the same treatment.