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by hellosmithy 4998 days ago
Meme: An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.

Seems pretty appropriate in this case.

It looks like a fun idea. How do the postcards look in printed form? I imagine quality is not great?

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Thanks! It's pretty silly, really, but it has been fun to play with. I only got switched to 'production mode' by Sincerely on Sunday, so I have yet to receive any of my test postcards - but their main business is printing people's photographs, so I think they should be fairly acceptable quality.

http://sincerely.com/

http://dev.sincerely.com/

A meme is a cultural unit. It can be an image or video, but also a belief or idea. It's like a gene, but in culture. So a "funny image with captions" might be a meme, but that neither means that every "funny image with captions" is a meme, nor that you can send all kinds of memes with that page. Thus the description is wrong.