To think that e-cards are a pile of shite?

[1950sHousewife]

I keep getting sent e-cards by friends and family.

Why do people send these?

What is the purpose of them? There tends to be some wanky drawing usually where something very dull happens (today's one for example is of a farkin' garden gnome doing bollocks) and you have to wait for the message at the end so you can tell them you got it.

Putting pen to paper is not that hard really. Or just send an email. At least I wouldn't have to watch animated animals popping out of eggs.

And there should be a special place in hell for people who paste theirs and their children's faces on dancing gnomes as well.
That is all.

YANBU, it does sound irritating, although I now have an urge to put my DC's faces on dancing gnomes and send it to everyone I know

I would rather not get a card then get an e-card tbh with you - YADNBU!

Lame useful for when you've forgotten to get a card though.

I do it at xmas (not for family/close friends) as I go through a cancer charity to which I make a donation then it sends an e-card out. I think its a lovely thing to do and a few of my friends do it for charities of their choice such as NSPCC, it also give the receiver the opportunity of making a donation if they wish.

People have often e-mailed back and said what a lovely idea it is but I do understand what you are saying though as your sound quite random.

YANBU
I hate ecards too

Well, DS loves getting them from his granny.

And tbh, now that stamps cost 60p a pop, I think I might be investigating e-cards pretty soon too!

YABU. Saves you the job of recycling!

I can see the positives being mentioned here- cheaper/immediate/good in an emergency. But even my dcs now look at them with a bemused look and wander off half way through.

I guess it's just not as satisfying as a real card or even an email. When you live abroad far from home it just feels a little...dismissive/thoughtless?

lou - your idea does sound nicer. Unless there are dancing gnomes of course...

Most ecards are pretty pants but I love these ones, some are very funny.

Agree

I find them annoying too.

I used to have a colleague who would randomly send me ones with bears and cats and stuff on to "brighten" my day at work My mum is also a fan of the e-card. My brother's parents in law even send special fancy ones that they pay for on some kind of e card subscription service (on environmental grounds rather than posting). Not to sound ungrateful but I just prefer a plain email rather than some animated tat too tbh!

No doubt very many ecards are rubbish, but I can recommend this site run by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It's a web gallery of Hungarian art - if you've never explored Hungarian painting before you'll be bowled over - and anything in the gallery can be sent as an ecard.

I hate jackie lawson. My mil sends them all the time for the kids to my email account so I have to play it for them. nothing interesting ever happens! I would love it if the stupifyingly picturesque cottage blew up at the end, sending bits of cutesy cats and mice flying towards me, flaming flowers shooting across the screen, a fairy impaled by a broken and smouldering fence post... but instead it is just several monotonous minutes of plants in pots to lift music...

Rant over. Yanbu.

Guess there must be something wrong with me, as I find the dancing gnomes hilarious! (Do you mean the ones from 'Elf Yourself'?

I hate cards because they go straight into the recycle in, but even recycling uses resources.

Because i work in paper environment i am very aware of how much is wasted and try to cut down were i can. The same with plastics, which cards are often wrapped in, yet get put in a small carrier bag when people buy them.

I would rather have e-cards.

YANBU. What an e-card says to me is "I really couldn't be arsed to spend the time or money involved in buying a card, writing on it and putting it in the post."

To save on the increased price of postage?

Personally, e-cards, please don't bother. I'd rather you sent me a text or an email!

Ugh the Jackie Lawson ones! What is it about them that makes even sophisticated, educated women who have had professional careers, go into raptures about a shitey animation of a naff-ola cat unwrapping a present, it's rubbish and not even funny! We get them all the time from MIL, aunts and whatnot.

Spaghettimonster I agree, if only they would all explode at the end, or swear or something. You sit there with the kids, watching it drag on, then it gets to the end and ta-daa! - IS THAT IT???! Fecking hate them.

Hah ha!!!!!

It was a Jackie Lawson card, you're right! FLyingspag - you have just the right idea. I'm thinking a Hunger Games inspired kitten/bunny/puppy reinactment would be about the only way of making these tolerable...

As said, the worst part is, you have to wait till the end to see the message just incase they actually said something important.

I'm all for recycling and all, but these feel like a lazy way of doing it.

If they were nice, amusing etc. then it would be good to receive them. It's not the idea of ecards which is the problem, it's that no-one seems to have made any good ones.

Sorry, I mistyped the address of my link. Try this.

I am always getting those Jacqueline Lawson ones. I have even asked the sender to stop sending them because I never open them and don't like ecards. I am happy with nothing rather than one of those things. Unfortunately I am still getting sent them.
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