electronic card (eCard)
An e-card is an electronic greeting card. It is usually designed by users with the help of graphic tools or selected based on motif templates and then sent electronically to other Internet users for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions.
The offer of E-Cards is mostly free for the users and finances itself over advertisement or customer data, which must be eigegeben by the user and then to Data brokers to be sold can. Users of e-cards benefit from the fact that the e-card is with the addressee within a very short time (elimination of uncertainty about the postal transit time) and no postage is incurred.