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Remember when you could buy people things on Facebook for around $1 that were essentially icons? I can't remember exactly how it worked or what they called them
by frereubu 8y ago
Remember when you could buy people things on Facebook for around $1 that were essentially icons? I can't remember exactly how it worked or what they called them, but I remember thinking at the time that you're essentially paying for a PNG to be displayed by someone's name and finding it weird. For a lark I wrote to their support team and suggested that I'd design them an icon for a cut of its revenue, and got a generic "thanks for the idea, we'll think about it" email response.
- krrrh 8y agoThey were called gifts. I thought it was a kind of clever way of displaying status and demonstrating that you were thinking of someone, just like real gifts or cards. I definitely would prefer a social network with modest ambitions that covered its costs this way rather than targeted advertising and pay to win social gaming.