https://www.facebook.com/about/gifts This is actually a pretty good idea, and a great way to monetize Facebook. The idea is that whenever a friend has a birthday, you can pick out a gift for them and have it sent directly to their house. They fill out their own shipping address and can even change the gift slightly (colors/styles) before it is shipped. This is a pretty big F-you to Amazon and eBay. It removes a step in giving a gift and takes out the middle step in having to get the gift shipped to you first before shipping it to your friend, and will no doubt drive sales as well as merchants away from the above mentioned sites. (Not that eBay hadn't already become an organization run by retarded flying monkeys.) It's too bad some people from the GoT thread in MC aren't my Facebook friends, or I'd think about sending them a GoT wyvern.
The book wasn't called a dance with wyverns, dude. Also wyverns have a spiked tail like a scorpion which those dragons don't have.
Um... Amazon does this. Just click 'This is a gift.' I use it all the time to send shit to buddies that are deployed.
Yeah, but on Amazon, you need to know the shipping info. Selling physical stuff is still the best way to make money on the Internet after selling fake amateur porn. Facebook can only go so far selling enhancements to farmtown and fishville, and I doubt the advertising click through rate is very good, just based on how frequently they change the interface and the extent to which jt is now invading the news feed. If I were the gift giving sort, I'd definitely use this.
I've gotten some pretty good CTRs with Facebook ads. They've dramatically improved their targeting capabilities in the last few years.
