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"Now you can do something more meaningful" (than a hey, happy birthday call or message). It disappoints me when I hear wording like this, there is nothing more
by marquis 14y ago
"Now you can do something more meaningful" (than a hey, happy birthday call or message). It disappoints me when I hear wording like this, there is nothing more meaningful about paying money for a present that took you two clicks and is probably already part of a pre-selected group of items from their profile/history, than thinking of something to write on their wall in two clicks.
All power to Facebook to make it work though: maybe if they can monetize themselves through means like this they'll pay more attention to privacy issues as they will have less incentive to make everything public for advertising/selling data.
- sbochins 14y agoI'd rather get a message from someone than a cupcake with no personal message any day of the week. When I was a child and I cared more about material objects that the people around me and whether or not they care for me, I would have picked the cupcake. But I don't use Facebook either, so I guess this whole Gift's thing doesn't really apply to me.
- prostoalex 14y agoThere's got to be a technology that allows attaching message to the said cupcake.
- philh 14y agoA message simply saying "Happy birthday!" isn't particularly personal either. I made my birthday unpublic to avoid them. (But I'm atypical in that I don't particularly care about birthdays.)
- clobber 14y ago"...pay more attention to privacy issues..." I doubt it as Zuckerberg has never cared about privacy.[1] 1. http://pleasedeletefacebook.com http://pleasedeletefacebook.com
- wahnfrieden 14y agoJust a note: when you have one citation and it's at the end, don't bother formalizing it with the fancy footnoting. It's especially obnoxious appended to snark.
- corwinstephen 14y agoTrue, but just because it's not very meaningful doesn't mean people won't use it. We don't live in an ideal world. If we did, nobody would buy prewritten greeting cards or flowers, which are essentially the same thing as a Facebook gift: Something that shows you care without requiring much thought.
- corwinstephen 14y agoTrue, but just because it's not very meaningful doesn't mean people won't use it. We don't live in an ideal world. If we did, nobody would buy prewritten greeting cards or flowers, which are essentially the same thing as a Facebook gift: Something that shows you care without requiring much thought.