Free E-cards: Finding Truly Good E-card Humor For Free

Sending e-cards has become one of the more popular methods of acknowledging events such as holidays, birthdays, and just to say hello. Often e-cards have taken the place of traditional cards that involve postage, pen, and stamps. More importantly, sending an e-card can bail you out when you remember that special occasion at the last second. For example, you just recalled today is your Mom's birthday, she lives 200 miles away and it's 5:00 PM. What do you do? Send her an e-card. However, not all e-cards sites are created equally. You go to your favorite search engine and type in, "e-card" and get hit with thousands of results. So, you click a search result that catches your eye. Great, tons of e-cards to choose from. Then you find the most appropriate one only to find out you need to either pay a fee to send the e-card or register with your e-mail and a password or what not. Not only that, but your choices are limited to what may be over done cheesy e-cards with animals and mundane animations that not only bore you to death but might very well bore your recipient into last week. So, you think to yourself, "Well this dancing bear sucks, but I need to send an e-card, so well, this is better than nothing." Don't worry, there is good news ahead. An entire world of well thought out and truly unique e-cards exist out there. You simply have to go beyond the "e-card' search engine request to find the real meat and potatoes of free e-cards. Not only are there a plethora of unique, funny, and conversation starting free e-cards out there, many of them don't charge fees or require you to register with your e-mail address to send them. Yes, there are truly interesting free e-cards out there. Let's start with the search. For one, searching on your favorite search engine using "e-card" or "free e-card" may not get you what you want. Try specializing your e-card search. For example if you want to send someone you are divorcing an e-card try searching under, "free divorce ecard" where you may find gems such as www.lamecards.com which has a unique brand of free e-.cards that will catch the eye of your recipient and make them remember the card you sent. Additionally, sites such as LameCards.com don't charge to send cards and don't require any form of registration. So specializing your search is key. Next, using the above, you may find the perfect free e-card site and the perfect card you want to send. However, part of sending the card asks you include your e-mail address as the sender. This is common and almost universal. So, you wonder if by doing so your e-mail is going to be submitted to some e-mail list you don't want to be part of. That, is a very valid point and one you should consider. So, before you send, check out the free e-card's privacy statement. It should be posted on their website, usually at the bottom of the page. Read it, and most honest sites will state where or how your e-mail address may be used. For example, the privacy statement on Lamecards.com provides their policy on issues such as, "Lamecards.com does not willingly provide, distribute, or sell e-mail addresses to any outside organizations," and, "The e-mail addresses you provide upon sending an e-card from lamecards.com will not be used by lamecards.com to send "spam" e-mails from lamecards.com and will not be willingly provided to third parties." These are important things to look for when sending free e-cards. In conclusion free e-cards can be fun to send. However, when you send one you want the person to notice that you took the effort to send the e-card and find a good one that would catch their eye. Anyone can send those everyday free e-cards from those name brand sites, but they might be seen as the quick and easy route and may also be seen as the boring shortcut. Search wisely, and find those special free e-cards that say, "Yes, I didn't just send you the first e-card I found."