Tuesday, March 1, 2011

vCards

Worst name ever.  I would love to meet the business masterminds and titans of industry who decided to name contact information vCards. For those who don't know, a vCard stores details such as phone numbers, name, email, etc. and is transferred through urls, tags, and QR codes. I am also quite certain vCard is a commonly known name for virginity. Imagine how odd mentions of vCards in everyday discussions will be, especially in business.  Great example, you are at a bar and introduce yourself to the man next to you.  He says, "Sorry, I'm only here to score as many vCards as possible."  Guys talking about taking a girl's vCard at a bar may not seem entirely weird, but imagine a business situation.  Say that after a client meeting the client leaves forgetting to leave his contact info and you hear your boss yell to him, "wait, I need your vCard."  If math and science have taught me anything, it is to not give two things the same name.  Come up with something original.  It may seem hard at first, but heeds much better results.  There had to be an alternative to vCard.  I guess this will only end with a sexual harassment lawsuit, because if The Office has taught me anything, it's that the Michael Scott bosses of the world will only take advantage of this.  "Sorry Dwight, I can't give you my vCard.  I lost it to Jan years ago." (And yes, nerd, I know Michael wasn't a virgin with Jan)

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