Happy Father's Day to all good fathers around the world. Thank you very much for your contribution to good parenting and making your families appreciate their lives. To my Dad who has passed on: I love you, Dad!
This post is prompted by a remark made by my good friend Wei Lin. She saw me reading a card I had received from a friend recently and said: "Traditional cards are so old-fashioned."
I wondered if that was true and decided to probe into the issue. A Google search revealed numerous articles on the debate between traditional paper-based cards and e-cards. Tracey Grady's examination of the pros and cons of each type is informative.
In my opinion, e-cards are not substitutes for the real (traditional) ones and they shouldn't be. I treat e-card e-mails with suspicion because spammers could be using them to download viruses and software onto my computer.
I have never sent anyone an e-card and I don't plan to; I dislike the cold impersonality of conveying greetings electronically.
I have always liked sending and receiving cards the traditional way.
The ritual of going to a bookshop, browsing at the card section, picking a suitable one for the recipient and then walking to a p…
I wondered if that was true and decided to probe into the issue. A Google search revealed numerous articles on the debate between traditional paper-based cards and e-cards. Tracey Grady's examination of the pros and cons of each type is informative.
In my opinion, e-cards are not substitutes for the real (traditional) ones and they shouldn't be. I treat e-card e-mails with suspicion because spammers could be using them to download viruses and software onto my computer.
I have never sent anyone an e-card and I don't plan to; I dislike the cold impersonality of conveying greetings electronically.
I have always liked sending and receiving cards the traditional way.
The ritual of going to a bookshop, browsing at the card section, picking a suitable one for the recipient and then walking to a p…
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