I am 25, having received cards all my life I think myself and my family (which is big) all feel that texting or email is no substitute for a card.

I hate ecards! I am very sentimental and I love to save all my cards. I have cards from my grandmas and parents from when I was a child. They cheer me when I’m down and remind me of them and the good times. I believe sending an ecard shows a lack of caring. It is very easy to click a button and send multiple ecards. I usually spend a lot of time picking out just the right card for my friends and family, and then handwriting an apopropriate message. Soon nobody will even remember how to write a letter. The texting, email is convenient, but does not replace snail mail.

I still send out Christmas cards. I actually look forward to Christmas because of that reason. I love looking for the perfect box set of cards…buying a book of stamps…wallet sizing a dozen pictures of my kids in front of the Christmas tree…and hand-addressing each envelope. I still send my grandma, my in-laws, and my best friend who moved to Chicago actual birthday cards and gifts. This is one of the many reasons I loathe technology!! But I can’t complain about it completely, because without tehnology how else would I have elsaelsa???

i love getting them! i put them up on the mantle andthey help me remember that there’s people out there who care about me. it can be kind of lonely so far from my family.
every couple years i send out christmas cards. sometimes in january i hate how crammed the holidays can be…
someday i hope to be together enough to send cards out for every birthday like my grandmas do, but right now i’ll make do with remembering to call, at least.

I am not big on cards, period. I don’t care much about sending them, and the only time anyone gets one from me is if I just happen to be in a stationary store a couple of days before the holiday. (I refuse to send Christmas cards, period.) As for when they are given to me, I look at a card, go “Huh”, and that’s it. But cards are a SUPER HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE BIG EFFING DEAL for my mother and she throws shit fits if (a) she doesn’t get them, and (b) if I ever, ever throw out a single card. So I have avalanches of cards I don’t much care about. At least the e-cards tend to be funny and don’t waste the paper or give me stuff I “can’t” get rid of.

I agree with vajra: who cares about a poem someone else wrote with a signature within it, on paper? It’s not personal, it’s not interesting.

I don’t like E-cards and I am not into snail mail cards. I like snail mail letters,Postcards and D.I.Y cards only. I don’t give out store bought cards anymore but make my own. I think people need to be more arts-n-crafty and actually put more energy in gifts and cards etc.

Err, I tend to dislike cards myself. Totally indifferent to these kinda things, though I know it’s important to many around me. I can make a great homemade card and those are the kind that I like receiving but for the most part a phone call or even not is fine for me. In my case they come across as empty gestures built on outdated rules about societal conduct. Meh! My Aqua moon would rather get a text message. (If I have a phone, which isn’t often!)

I don’t care for generic mass produced holiday cards and find e-cards very tacky.

However, I love beautiful stationary and cards, and my friends and I send them (usually with letters or artwork and clippings) frequently even though we also often txt, twitter, facebook, etc. each other. No one my age uses email to communicate with friends – it’s for sending files, acquaintances, and work. Maybe that’s why no one uses ecards, at least in my generation.

Oh, the one standard card I ALWAYS send is a snail mail thank you note. For the host of parties, job interviews, one’s supervisor, gifts received, whatever.

My Mercury’s in 12th in Capricorn.

AWWw Lunalie that is super sweet.

I dont mind how Im wished Happy Birthday but I do like to get a few small messages whether it through a text, phone call, email, facebook or card. Our family always give a card on birthdays with a present, its kinda of a tradition but with friends it depends. I always give a card and small gift if Im meeting someone for their birthday and I like writing a small message of my own about them and our friendship. I did send and receive e-cards years ago as a way of communicating with overseas friends because it was instant and we attach songs we loved to the cards but haven’t sent many e-cards since facebook took off.

At the end of the day I think it’s the sentiment that counts not really how its received.