Sending gifts and virtual items on Facebook is not a new thing, but many people wish they could send out real gifts and let the recipient know about it on Facebook. Good news for Australians, a new gift service does that exactly.
Jess Parzakonisney, a local Sydney resident, has launched an online gift service that allows Australians show their love and affection to their families and friends on Facebook by sending out real Gifts.
Gifterati allows users to send real gifts like Chocolate, wine, donations, baby gifts, and gift cards to family and friends through Facebook. When you send a gift, the gifts are also posted right on the Facebook wall of the recipient.
Sure, there are other apps on Facebook that allows users to send real gifts like beers or coffees. But, Gifterati is one big step ahead in terms of the variety of gifts that can be sent. Hopefully, the site will expand their service globally and carter to the needs of users in other countries.
Australia has over 9 million Facebook users. To make use of this online resource, Jessica launched a gifting site called Gifterati in March 2011. Check out their website www.gifterati.com.au for more information.
Sending and receiving different types of drinks was a rage when “Pass a Drink” app was popular.{sigh} You can now send and receive real drinks on Facebook through a service called Bartab.
Using a cell phone and Facebook, Bartab is lets you send vouchers for actual drinks that can be collected at local watering holes. The drinks are cheap costing the sender and recipient $1 apiece.
At the moment, the service is available only in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas and in New York, but more markets including Seattle, Atlanta and Houston will be added in the next few months.
Here is how it works: After signing up for the service, you choose a bar and a drink. Select a Facebook friend to send the drink to, and the drink will show up on your friend’s Facebook profile. The recipient, must also sign up for Bartab before imbibing. Drinks should be claimed within three months with a text-message coupon.
So, go ahead and buy your friends a drink, instead of just writing on their wall.
For many Facebook users worldwide Aug 1, 2010 will be a gloomy day… no wait!! Facebook isn’t closing down or nothing catastrophic is going to happen, but for all the people who loved using the Facebook Gift Shop, will have to contend with third-party applications for giving and receiving gifts.
Facebook announced this decision at the beginning of this month. This is just a reminder guys..for we got roughly two days to make the most of this Facebook product.
The end of the Gift shop will be a bittersweet moment for all those people who loved to sent and received gifts. But, the memories will remain and so does the gifts that you have sent and received..
But we all know that the end something is the beginning of another. So, with Facebook’s decision to close down the Facebook Gift Shop to focus on improving other products, let’s open way for other new-and-improve products from Facebook as we say farewell to Facebook Gift Shop.
Last but not the least, do share with us your favorite gift and the gifts that you’ll cherish. As for me, i’ll forever cherish the Penguin Love, Weekend Bubbly, and the Jock Strap 
Facebook allows users to perform many actions as they do in real life scenarios. Facebook Gifts are one of the frequently used and popular features among the Facebook users, especially among the young crowd. Introduced in February 2007, Facebook Gifts allowed users to send gifts, small icons of different items designed by Susan Kare, who formerly worked at Apple.
Facebook came up with the concept of Virtual Gift Shop for hosting these various gifts that can be sent in a few clicks to the recipients. There are two main ways of sending a gift to someone; private and public. When gifts are sent through the private channel, the gift or the associated message cannot be viewed by anyone other than the sender and the recipient. When the gift is sent via public channel, everyone in the friends list can view the gift and the associated message.
Facebook users were given one free gift upon the registration and charged $1.00 per additional gifts. Initially the profit earned by the gifts was donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity. But later at a point, the donation was stopped, and Facebook started releasing a new gift each day. These new gifts were limited (number and times limited) in an attempt to make the gifts rare among the users.
Although Facebook Gifts charges the users for sending gifts, Free Gifts, the application developed by Zachary Allia, allows users to send gifts to friends without spending any money. The latter feature since then, won the hearts of Facebook users, limiting the use of the original Facebook Gifts.
Sending gifts and virtual items on Facebook is not a new thing, but many people wish they could send out real gifts and let the recipient know about it on Facebook. Good news for Australians, a new gift service does that exactly.