In the 2020s Does Sending Cards Instead of DMs, Texts, Etc Make You Outdated?

I’m old-fashioned. I remember articles years ago in “Fast Company,” “Harvard Business Review” and the like telling readers that the average person is refreshed by the effort required to write and send cards vs. digital messages. The commonness of direct messages and text messages marked greeting cards as novel. “No body” makes a habit of sending them.

Being swamped with web-centric lived and careers obligations, few people embrace the idea of choosing to send hand-written cards. To send of them seems to be too much work. Being a sociable introvert, I’ve never found myself enthrall with the “majesty” of sending or receiving DMs or text messages? Maybe I’m stodgy? But I want friends and contacts to know that I’m someone who cares enough to make the effort to send a card. To receive something they can open and then hold, appreciating an illustration and a heart-felt message.

A wrinkle in preferring to distinguish myself with handwriting is that “no body” responds to or thanks you for your choice. Isn’t that choice what makes it and you in-turn special? I know that I feel special when I receive a card. This, in an era when only bills and beggars land in my mailbox Maybe that makes me an outlier in our digital-first culture? It seems that nobody younger than 45-years-old is phased by receiving greeting cards.

What’s more, choosing to send something that can be touched, and be touching might mark someone as being out-of-touch! How much of a vice is card sending in the 2020s where “everything” is done by touching a screen? Does that 20^th-Century desire for old-school IRL connectedness mark you in a negative way Millennials and Gen-Z? Maybe?