This year I got my share of snail mail holiday cards and a smattering of e-mail e-cards. But this was the first year I got 2 SMS holiday cards!
They said:
Merry christmas! 🙂
– from J.
All the best wishes for a happy and healthy 2007! :-*
– from V., A., and J.
Maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal, but for me, it’s just another milestone in SMS coming into its own in the U.S.
These SMS greetings are:
Easy to create – just type it out on your phone and no messing around with graphics.
Immediate – they aren’t sent to your e-mail, but you get it on your phone which you probably have on or near you right now.
Easy to send – my phone has almost all my friends on it, which is the list of people I really wanted to send some sort of greeting to anyways. And, it has a nice interface to send mass SMSes to everyone in my phone book.
Perhaps it’s just a matter of time before someone thinks of creating an MMS based greeting card service?