Send a virtual gift

The Internet can be a good source of gifts for Christmas. Think about it: no traffic, no long lines and no short tempers because of the crowds. We’re not
virtual gifts, which you can get from talking about online shopping here but
the Internet for very little cash or free.

A virtual gift is a collection of pixels that looks like a real present except that you can’t really touch it. But as they say, it’s the thought that counts. While most of these virtual items are free, some cost at least $1 eat Without any special occasion at all, make someone feel special by giving him/her a gift regardless of the distance between you. Planetwrapper (www.planetwrapper. com), with a tagline “wrap the Web”, is an interactive gift shop that offers

Internet users a category of gift items and a line of colorful wrappers and ribbons to send online. The gift will be sent through e-mail and the receiver gets a downloadable image. You may also personalize your gift by downloading your own photo of choice, wrap it and send it online.
a virtual postcard, HiCards (www. hicards.corn) offers personalized greeting cards for free. Its “Celebrate the Day Trivia Newsletter” (www.hidates.com)
feature also gives Internet users daily fun celebrations and reasons to send gifts.

Free virtual gifts are also available at VirtualGifts4U (www.virtualgifts4u.com); Comments101 (www.comments101.com), in which you may post the gift publicly cm the receiver’s profile page on a networking site; and Virtual Chocolate (www.virtualchocolate.com), which chocoholics are sure to enjoy.

Social networking sites feature virtual gifts for their members’ profile pages. In 2007, Facebook introduced its first virtual gift shop. The prices of each item (starting at $1) correspond to a number of virtual credits, depending on the item price. Facebook also offers free virtual items.

Early this year, the birthday virtual gift was launched with Facebook Gifts application, which shows an array of virtual gifts available for sale from the site’s gift store. It can be seen by default on one’s birthday.

Other social networking sites like Twitter also launched their own virtual gift shops like “twesents” and “tweetgift.”

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