- Sep 21, 2001
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I'll be the first to admit, I really don't get it. I know people spend the money on cards and postage and printing... for what?
Most of the time we're talking a card with a pithy or sentimental hallmark statement and a signature. So... are you showing me you found a cool card? Or allowing me to rip and reuse your signature for fraudulent activities? (I have to admit, that would make a nice Christmas present...) I sorta get the "I'm thinking of you" idea except that I know they made a list or re-used last year's, so they weren't necessarily thinking of me other than "who might be offended if I didn't send them a card."
Newsletters, eh, ok, that makes a little more sense. It's either "I see you all the time so you know most of this stuff but I don't want you to feel left out / I feel better sending an extra letter because it proves I have friends" or "I don't actually have a friendship with you anymore so you don't know any of this but I figure you're still at least somewhat interested in my life". The latter is often true for the people who send me Christmas newsletters.
However, getting either of these things in email really and truly befuddles me. I just got a png Christmas newsletter. Um, this is the exact same content you could have put in a nifty little form called email, so why did you write it up, turn it into an image and attach it to a blank email? Is it just more Christmas-y and traditional when you make it TWO image attachments that are too small to read when viewed in the browser, too large to read without scrolling when zoomed, so that they need to be downloaded and opened in an image viewer?
<------ is grinch
Most of the time we're talking a card with a pithy or sentimental hallmark statement and a signature. So... are you showing me you found a cool card? Or allowing me to rip and reuse your signature for fraudulent activities? (I have to admit, that would make a nice Christmas present...) I sorta get the "I'm thinking of you" idea except that I know they made a list or re-used last year's, so they weren't necessarily thinking of me other than "who might be offended if I didn't send them a card."
Newsletters, eh, ok, that makes a little more sense. It's either "I see you all the time so you know most of this stuff but I don't want you to feel left out / I feel better sending an extra letter because it proves I have friends" or "I don't actually have a friendship with you anymore so you don't know any of this but I figure you're still at least somewhat interested in my life". The latter is often true for the people who send me Christmas newsletters.
However, getting either of these things in email really and truly befuddles me. I just got a png Christmas newsletter. Um, this is the exact same content you could have put in a nifty little form called email, so why did you write it up, turn it into an image and attach it to a blank email? Is it just more Christmas-y and traditional when you make it TWO image attachments that are too small to read when viewed in the browser, too large to read without scrolling when zoomed, so that they need to be downloaded and opened in an image viewer?
<------ is grinch
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