exxonmobil uses advanced visualization and drilling technologies to produce natural gas. powering our lives. while reducing emissions by up to 60%. energy lives here. we re back. has the long standing transition of sending christmas cards lost a personal touch in today s age? when you turn over the glossy photo on the front, what do you see on the back? or is there a lack of greeting at all? eric hoover from the chronicle of higher education wrote in the washington post recently now that our lives involve sharing an abundance of pictures we once kept to ourselves, snapshots of parties we attended, meals devoured, it makes sense that photos dominate the paper cards in our mailboxes. but these prefabricated greetings seem as empty as a
all i m saying is there is a difference when you get a card, and it may not even be a long note. it probably isn t a long note, but two or three lines that were meant for you that are personalized that make you think, you know, someone on the other end thought about me for 48 seconds, and hey, especially because we re tweeting and instagraming our way through life now, those 48 seconds worth of thought, a complete sentence or two written in your honor? hey, that feels pretty good to me. the one thing i want to say dan, make sure you e-mail me your mailing address because i m not sure about eric hoover, but i m adding you to my list for next year, for sure. please do. i m very happy to get it. the big e-mail blast would be, i m on your side, eric. that s an e-mail blast, but a personal card takes more work. it definitely takes work, but i only 30 seconds left, eric. what reaction did you get to your piece in the post ? i ve received over 100 e-mails from around the worl
e-mails from around the world and to my surprise, i would say 90% of the responses were very, very positive. i was bracing for more hate mail, but i guess there is a lesson to be learned there. if you want to express your hatred, and certainly many people have done so online, you go to the backwater of american discourse, which is the anonymous comment board on any newspaper s website. but most of the responses i received were touching. thank you both. thank you. happy holidays. thank you, eric hoover, thank you, dean obidala. [ male announcer ] here s a question for you: the energy in one gallon of gas is also enough to keep your smartphone running for how long? 30 days? 300 days? 3,000 days? the answer is. 3,000 days. because of gasoline s high energy density,
are hurtful on that. you re like, oh that was bad. but i like any card. i think it s a great thing. i got a card from the white house this year. i know the president didn t sign it but somebody thought of me at the white house, just like one of my friends thought of me and sent me a card, and i think it s a nice gesture. eric hoover, what about those like the president who send out a boatload of cards? you let them have some slack, i imagine? sure, he s the president, but i think we all know people who send out 100, 200, 300 christmas cards. i have friends who say they send cards out to people they don t know and haven t even met, so essentially playing the roll of ll bean. here s our catalog, human, you exist. here you go, look at all these pictures. and there s nothing wrong with that and i think there s something to the idea that, hey, sending a card, whatever kind of card it is, a cold fish of a card that is impersonal and has no ink on it hey, maybe that s better than no card
i think about it. all the people we know in the universe and i ask myself how many of them aren t busy. i can t come up with a long list of folks that aren t busy in some way. i know retirees who are busy. and i think it s just a matter of what we choose to spend our time on. some of the busiest folks i know somehow manage to squeeze out the time a few minutes here and there to write personal notes whether it s at the holidays or just throughout the year. and so i think, yeah, sure, we re all busy. but some of us are busy, oh, posting on facebook two or three or ten times a day. that s not me. dean, bail he out here. defend my holiday card. i m happy to get any card. i will appreciate it. eric is just a bit more demanding here. it s got a have a personal touch on it. i ll be honest. i m happy to get a manufactured card or a handwritten one. in fact, my friends that send me handwritten ones, i can t read their handwriting.