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The fun with Facebook gifts
Sometimes, buying intangible items makes sense: software, music off iTunes, even your electric bill (you can’t “touch” electricity in the truest sense, after all).
Sometimes it doesn’t make any sense at all.
Take Facebook gifts. These little icons (which I guess are 64x64 pixels each) can be yours to give to any facebook friend for a dollar! Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the idea behind giving the gifts; it’s a small gesture to let someone know you’re thinking of them, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just that...I’m buying an icon. I’m buying something I can view on my computer screen 1.
Whatever happened to sending cards? Or flowers? I mean, both cost more than a $1 Facebook gift, but you can smell and touch flowers. You can hold a card in your hands. Can’t do that with a Facebook gift. And a real gift is waay more personal. I don’t know.
Anyway, that’s my random thought for the night.
1You could print the page, cut out the gift icon, and stick it on your fridge if you want, of course. 
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Great post! I’m just starting out in community management/marketing media and trying to learn how to do it well - resources like this article are incredibly helpful. As our company is based in the US, it’s all a bit new to us. The example above is something that I worry about as well, how to show your own genuine enthusiasm and share the fact that your product is useful in that case hot stocks newsletter
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I sincerely hope this doesn’t apply for the up coming Mothers day, mothers don’t want expensive gifts but sending them an “icon” as attention it’s not that recommendable and I am pretty sure most of them would get disappointed.