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Facebook users hate change. Every little adjustment to the design or function of the site spawns a bunch of protest groups and angry comments on the Facebook blog. Here's an uncontroversial change, though: Facebook just killed off its virtual gift feature. Users will be able to keep the gifts they've already received, but you won't be able to spend your Facebook credits on new gifts after August 1.Okay, so, gifts were relatively inoffensive, and they at least drew some attention to the Facebook credit system -- which is about to power popular games like FarmVille -- so why shut them down now? I guess the gifts just weren't that popular. It can't have been that expensive to keep cranking out new gifts, either, so the most likely answer is that nobody's buying them. Kids probably prefer to spend their Facebook credits on games, rather than static images that just sit on their profiles doing nothing.
Facebook kills off Gifts, pushes Facebook Credits originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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