Facebook has a raw strong-arm endowment circuit card that exploit like a even gift card except you could use it at multiple retailer . But ! It ’s not a hard cash - equivalent Visa you may spend everywhere . It ’s not even a stored value card that let you drop the X - amount of money wherever you want within a Facebook - approved kitty of retailers . It strike the saddest and lamest natural endowment possible and makes it worse .
Instead of all the logical permutations a Facebook Gift Card could take here ’s how it ferment . The person have the gift selects from a list of participating retailers — at launch : Jamba Juice , Olive Garden , Sephora , and Target — and then give the natural endowment only to that retail merchant . So it ’s just the same lame old Target gift identity card apparel up with a Facebook logo . But since you could buy it online without about three seconds of thought , it does n’t even give the tenuous illusion that you care .
There is a potential upside , though . Assuming everybody in the world set off using Facebook for their faineant , last - minute gifting , all of your counterpoise will be draw to your Facebook account and a undivided reclaimable card . No more post - Christmas notecase fat ! Plus , assure your balances would be leisurely , and if you turn a loss your card , deactivating and replacing it can be done from a service you already use everyday .
So much for the top , this idea ’s blank elephant . Oh well . [ FacebookviaAllThingsD ]
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