Tomorrow is some one’s birthday according to facebook. Actually, two people’s. It’s always some one’s birthday. Anyway, facebook prompts you to give the birthday boys and birthday girls gifts, but they just want you to send them some stupid facebook sticker or something.
There should exist a system where I click, give a gift, and then give some dollar amount. The money is taken from my account, and sent to the recipients account. On the recipients side, they have a list of items they want. If they have lots of items, the system just buys one of the items that is the correct amount for the amount I paid. If nothing exists, the system just holds the money, and pools it with other gift givers until it can buy something on the list. Once the system buys something it just auto sends it to the receiver and has a list of those who contributed to the gift. Sweet ya?
It would have to have some method of allowing the users to get money out, so money doesn’t just stay in limbo forever, but such a system would greatly improve my feelings about gift giving. 😛