I remember with some distaste browsing a Hallmark Card shelf
at a local stationery store. This may have happened about ten years ago. The
bulk of the cards were supposed to be funny. For me a Hallmark Card was always a reduced exercise
in the Cyrano de Bergerac syndrome of having someone else say what we could not
personally put down on paper. A nice
birthday letter for me always trumped a Hallmark Card.
Thankfully in this 21st century when Hallmark
Cards, like newspapers are moribund, and Christmas cards are almost forgotten
we need not trouble ourselves in going to that stationery store. We now have
the improvement of being able to text our greetings and even end relationships
via that smart phone.
Socially we are becoming inept as we increasingly rely on “Social
Media” to wish or friends happy birthdays. We no longer need to apologize for forgetting. Facebook gives us reminders.
But the worst aspect of this decaying social media is the event invitation. They are now coming fast and plentiful. The appearance of intimacy is only superficial. This is plain mass-mailing-without-stamps. Some of the mass mailings of the past at least contained a personal signature in longhand.
I would like to find a Facebook tool or app that would
enable me to stop receiving event invites.