Gift Creator is a new application on Facebook that lets you create your own gifting application. It works much like the Quiz Creator applications that gained popularity last year, and there is in fact a quiz creator option within the Gift Creator app. It’s easier to use than the Gift Creator option, and doesn’t require any additional downloads.
The Gift Creator option, however, will require that you install The Facebook Developer App, since you are effectively creating an application that acts almost autonomously within the Facebook platform. You won’t need any programming skills in order to complete the application or the installation. All you need to create a gifting app is a title, a description and an image. Each image you upload represents a single gift. Facebook users can send this gift to their friends.
In this regard, the gifting app you create on Gift Creator acts as any other gifting app on Facbook. Since you don’t have full control over the app’s look and feel, or the level of integration within the Facebook platform, it’s going to be difficult to leverage the app for raising money or earning you money via advertising or otherwise. It doesn’t appear that there’s an option for selling gifts through Gift Creator, though that would be a powerful incentive for users that would like to take advantage of the gifting economy that’s playing out on social networks.
Gift Creator does, however, have an incentive for inviting friends. So for every application that’s created, a slew of invites can easily be sent out to friends on Facebook, effectively spamming a number of other users. This violates the Facebook Terms of Service, especially as Facebook has continually modified the terms restricting spam-like behavior.
It does appear that Gift Creator has some built in mechanisms that curb some spam behavior when it comes to actual gifting to friends. The app you create acts just like any other application running on Facebook’s platform, meaning that sharing behavior is regulated based on the popularity of your app, the amount of content available to gift to others, and the number of friends that a gift can be sent to.
If you want to create your own gifts application, then go install the application. Don’t be surprised if the Gift Creator gets shut down anytime soon though for offering incentivized invites.
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Comment by seks melayu — March 13, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
This App's most recent coercive publishing of gifting to everyone's PROFILE (vs Home page) unless users click all the tricky & numerous additional choices to simply maintain the privacy they already had, is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Even awesome free apps can only trick people into publishing unwanted stuff on their profiles so much until a competing Social Network will seize the opportunity to fill a need! Please don't invite the next Facebook the same way My Space created the need for you! Therefore: Pleeeeease STOP AGGRESSIVE "SHARING" to my & my Friends' Profiles as default and return to letting ME "continue to invite" as before????????
Comment by Rosemarie Bredahl Ot — December 21, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Many people are complaining that they can't figure out how to get their gifts that were made by Gift Creator. There's a new Facebook group — http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14713833997... — started with the hope that if enough people get organized they can change this situation: gifts that aren't useful in games, and endless things posted on people's walls — without their permission — courtesy of Gift Creator.
You can join here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14713833997...
It's just not right that the only way to stop the wall spam is to block everyone from posting to your wall, or removing and blocking the people who use it.
Comment by Brian Corr — December 31, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
I would like to remove this application, but when I go to application settings, Gift Creator is not even listed, though it does show up in my personal applications listing. Anybody know to go about doing this??
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