IVOR TOSSELL

Globe and Mail Update

When you send an e-card, you’re not in “sending the best,” as Hallmark would have you believe.

It’s Valentine’s Day again, which makes it a perfect day not to send that special someone an electronic greeting card. As a matter of fact, Valentine’s Day is only the first of 365 great days not to send an e-card.

You know the kind, where you get what appears to be an e-mail from a friend, but turns out to be from a robot at a greeting-card company instead.

Inside the e-mail there’s some legalese and an unintelligible link, and when you click it, you get taken to a Web page where a dancing rodent pops up with an inscription like, “Every time I think of you, I hug you in my heart.”

Maybe there are people out there who really do feel hugged in the heart when they find this in their inbox. Personally, I feel some constriction of the throat.

Some food for thought and a funny read

Source: Globe and Mail