The best things in life are free as what the famous saying goes. However with the modernized technologically and advanced society that we have nowadays, is there such a thing as ‘free’? Of course there is! There are lots of things that you can do without spending that much and that includes sending of free online greeting cards.

Greeting cards can express the emotions that you may not be able to show and the words that you may not be able to say especially if you are hindered by space and distance. Sending of greeting cards does not have to be done solely in times of special occasions like birthday, anniversary, Christmas and New Year. A greeting card can as well be sent to make someone know that he or she is remembered.

Greeting cards originated sometime in the 1800s among the elite groups in the society. It was originally used to send private messages with added designs. The cards were hand made which were then meant for the rich because of its expensive cost. It was formally introduced to the whole world in 1840 in the form of postage stamps. It was made open to the general public in 1850 through printers. Nowadays anyone can have access to the wide array of greeting cards with various styles and designs to suit the same varied preferences of users and customers like you.

Free greeting cards that can be sent online are accessible to anyone. There are billions of card types in the World Wide Web for ordinary and special occasions. What makes them more entertaining are the animated characters and designs commonly accompanied with music to set the tone and theme of the message or greetings conveyed.

Fast and easy access is one of the stand-out advantages of online greeting cards over paper cards. Free greeting cards online are made electronically through the internet. Paper cards on the other hand are made in factories which can use up our natural resources and in the end, deplete our environment. Thus, our environment can be safeguarded depletion by using electronic online greeting cards. Online greeting cards are also faster and easier to send.

An email account is needed to send the free greeting cards online. There are easy instructions on how to send E-cards. Multiple sending can as well be done as long as the person to whom you will send your card has an email account it may be on Yahoo!, Google or in any search engine in the net. With this feature, you can send greetings to your online friends anytime and anywhere they may be.

Just take your pick from the long array of sites although some sources may ask for a few cents but that is nothing compared to what you can save in case you go for paper made card