

Or we can go to an individual friend’s timeline and choose the “Gift” tab.Īs of now, the gift categories include: food, apparel/accessories/beauty, home/design/digital subscriptions/gift certificates, baby/kids/pets and wine/beverages. We’ll be able to give our Facebook friends gifts directly from the birthday (or engagement or marriage) announcement on our news feeds. TechCrunch terms these gifts the a rebirth of the gift app Karma, which Facebook acquired in May. will be able to give presents to their Facebook friends in commemoration of a birthday, wedding, engagement, etc.: things like Gund teddy bears, Starbucks gift cards, and Magnolia Bakery cupcakes for all those women who will simply never get over their Sex and the City obsession (me included). (The piñata was a personal fav, as were those two creepy bears locked in an embrace with an expression of terrible, intense, and unexplainable fear in their eyes.)įacebook discontinued these gifts in 2010 however, last week, the social networking site announced the return of Facebook gifts, only this time, they’re real, not virtual. (Hey, at least I never once played Farmville.) Remember those horribly corny yet ubiquitous virtual gifts on Facebook circa 2007-2010? Admittedly, to my chagrin, I can recall sending and receiving several virtual smiley face balloons, birthday cakes, glasses of champagne, and roses.
