Email Christmas Greetings?

[SrKen]

We've been getting a few more of these each year and finally thought I'd give in and do the same.

It's cheaper of course.
A lot less trouble than messing around with all those cards and notes.
Can easily enclose some nice family photos.

I wonder how just how popular this has become?

[Julie Rains]

I have done email (partially) before and was thinking of sending email greetings this year with photos or a link to photos, just to save time and money. But the emails will eventually be deleted so it would be nice to send a card though, now that I am thinking about it, those may get tossed in the trash at some point. My idea is to send photos of the kids to those who I think will really enjoy them.

[Philip Brewer]

On the one hand, it's one of those funny-because-it's-true things: "E-cards: When you don't care enough to send the very least."

On the other hand, if you routinely communicate via email anyway, it just makes good sense to communicate via email on holidays too.

So, I vote Yes on email, but No on e-cards. (On the other, other hand, it's been years since I sent more than a tiny handful of Christmas cards anyway....)

[redambrosia]

I would probably send out e-cards if I had all my relative's email addresses. For one thing, yes, it's cheaper, secondly, who really does keep all those Christmas cards? I usually recycle the ones I get unless I happen to like the design on it. Too much clutter, hate doing the pack rat thing.

[hermione]

I would send by email to those who regularly use email. But for older people like grandmothers and aunts and uncles who aren't online, I'd use mail. While greeting cards are a nice gesture and I do appreciate them, they also stack up and we already have too much stuff in our house and it feels rude to throw them away, but I often keep such things I receive in my email.

So I would prefer receiving email greetings, myself, and feel that it's ok to send them if they're thoughtful/meaningful. One year, we took pictures of our puppies and created a nice little graphic frame with a greeting like a holiday photo card with all our names, but all on Photoshop. It was cute and we emailed those greetings to friends and family. I think it's also nice to include a short little update on your family in the email.

As for those web e-cards, they are a little tacky, in my opinion. Some of them are quite funny, but I think those are more for fun, maybe between siblings and co-workers, than "season's greetings".