Facebook Expands Gifts Feature Beyond The United States

Facebook now allows users outside the United States of America to send gifts to their friends, as long as their friends live in America. Users in the UK, Canada and India have noticed new gift suggestions appearing on their Facebook pages.

Facebook Gifts was launched in the United States late last year. Since then, Facebook has launched its own gift card, entered into an agreement with Starbucks and begun suggesting users give gifts alongside celebratory notifications.

Now, users outside the United States are beginning to gain access to gifts. When I went on Facebook this morning, I was informed that I can now buy a gift for a friend on Facebook, after which I was prompted to buy a gift for my American friend’s twenty-seventh birthday.




Facebook has confirmed to Inside Facebook that the social media site has made "an update to Gifts that allows people using Facebook in English outside of the U.S. to send Gifts to friends living in the U.S." Facebook has not yet reported whether the Gifts feature will become fully available to international users, allowing gift giving outside the United States.

There have also been reports that Facebook is now alerting users who have the redesigned news feed of any news feed posts they miss. While users are off the home page, a number will tally up the number of unseen posts beside the “Home” tab.

Would you like to be able to send friends gifts on Facebook?