Facebook will soon have a postcard tool powered by Sincerely that allows you to create postcards with your own photos.
It’s not really news that we have totally forgotten about the art of the written letter. Who writes letters anymore besides our grandparents? Yet handwritten letters seem more meaningful than a typed email or Facebook message. While it takes awhile for letters to be sent via snail mail, many think the wait is what makes the letter exciting. Also, if you’re not expecting it, it will definitely make your day 10 times better when you open up your mailbox expecting bills, but find a letter from a long-lost friend instead.
It’s not that we hate writing letters; it’s that we are so preoccupied by technology that we rarely think about it. Even postcards are a thing of the past. It’s common to buy a postcard and forget to send it out. Part of that is likely due to the fact that we would have to go out and buy stamps.
Luckily, one company plans to bring the art of the postcard back into our lives by allowing us to create postcards through our own Facebook photos.
The postcard creator is powered by Sincerely. Sincerely already makes postcards from iPhone photos with its Postagram app, but embarking into the social media world is a new venture.
To create a postcard through Facebook, you look through your uploaded photos, chose one, and the chosen photo is automatically made into a real postcard. The front of the postcard will display the photo you chose, while the back will feature a personalized message for the recipient. Once you enter in the recipient’s address or you link it with the recipient’s Facebook page, your postcard will be printed out and sent by Sincerely.
The postcard tool is still in the testing phase, as Sincerely wants to gauge price points and smooth out the details. Soon enough, the tool will be available to all Facebook users, and we can slowly remember the benefits of personalized, snail-mail letters.
Source : digitaltrends[dot]com
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