AFTER the huge rise in internet shopping, there came a wide range of products and online stores, which anyone can use to purchase products with just a few simple clicks.

This increase has brought sites such as moonpig.com and funkypigeon.com which allows you to buy, write and send cards to loved ones without doing so much as licking the stamp and envelope.

So with this up-and- coming celebration we all know as Valentine's Day, there will be a lot of cards being purchased by many, to let their loved ones know how much they mean to them.

However, I wonder how many of these cards will be as personal as every card would have been about ten years ago? When people would go into their local shop, choose a card and write a personal message with their own handwriting.

It all seems a little more impersonal now, even though on these sites you can choose which card you would like to send your loved one, who wants a loving message written in Times New Roman? You may as well send an e-mail or a text.

Isn't it more romantic to receive a message written in pen? Isn't it more expressive and special?

How could the most romantic day of the year have suddenly become depersonalised with the cost of £2.99.

Why has society and romance suddenly died since last century.

During the war, for example, women around the world would send love letters on Valentine's Day sealed with a loving kiss.

They would make them even more personalised with a spray of their own perfume and rose petals. Can moonpig, e-mails, etc, seal your card with a loving kiss or personalise with your own handwriting?

So I urge you to keep romance alive this Valentine's Day and for every other Valentine's Day in the future.

Walk to your local shop, browse for your perfect card, pick up a pen and seal it with your own loving kiss.