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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like getting them! We just send a photo card, but I prefer getting the cards with some news. We don't get any full on newsletters these days, but maybe a few sentences or a paragraph with life updates.

We send about 55 cards, receive about 45, and the vast majority are friends and family members in other states that we don't get to see much.

It is fun to hear that my college roommate took a trip to a destination we are thinking about. It is fun to see that our friend in another city, who we haven't seen in five years, has a child with the same weird interest as our same-age child. For our friends whose child had a life threatening epileptic episode, it is heartwarming to see her growing up every year and learning that she is going to school and riding a bike and all that. It's nice to know when people move or change jobs in a meaningful way. All these things give us a reason to call/ reconnect.

We don't use social media, and we haven't seen most of the Christmas card recipients in over 5 years. But the cards still tie us together. In 2023, my college friend sent a card with a pic of her kids on spring break - we realized we both had the same spring break - and the next year we met up with all our kids and families in Florida, and it was just like old times (she lives in the northeast, we live in the midwest). We hadn't seen each other in over five years.[/quote]

You can obviously see the inefficiency of the newsletter and once a year snail mail cards. Social media is the way to go. Few things are more embarrassing and gut punching as sending a card to someone who is deceased and you don't know it. It's not a good look.[/quote]

Not sure you've thought this through.  Just because *you* post things on social media doesn't mean your card list does.  And if they don't, your method of eschewing cards and sending all info out via social media results in NEVER finding out your friend is dead.  At least with a card, you find out during the relevant year.  I think it's better to find out, honestly.[/quote]

Maybe just text or call people periodically who don't do SM, if you care about them. If not don't. Just quit with the newsletters.[/quote]

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