I got a STD, you may have it too

Just imagine opening your email and receiving that message from your lover. Now, imagine if you received it in an e-card.

Since 2004, an online company called inspot.org has been allowing people to anonymously send e-cards to their partners to get tested for STD’s such as HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis.

And the news is delivered in a variety of styles. One card reads, “You're too hot to be out of action. I got diagnosed with an STD since we played. You might want to get checked too”.

Isn’t that kind of like a teacher giving you an “F” and putting a smiley face next to it?

Personally, I don’t know what would piss me off more. The fact that I may have an STD. Or, the fact that the person who possibly burned me didn’t have the guts to at least pick up the phone and tell me.

There are plenty of good reasons to send an e-card. Informing someone that you may have given them a disease is not one of them – in my estimation.

Apparently, there are those who feel that it is appropriate. InSpot boasts that since its inception over 50,000 e-cards have been sent.

That is just so impersonal.

But, it may be a sign of the times.

The Wizard has spoken.