“Gifts” in social networks - new ideas

Many social networks offer users such a paid service as "gifts". Usually, these are symbolic attention signs presented in the form of pictures that can be presented to another user by paying for a gift with sms. The typical cost of gifts ranges from a dollar to $ 7 per piece.



We thought: what can we invent a new, unusual, interesting in this area? And dedicated to the topic of gifts recent meeting of the club Brain Exchange . The meeting participants generated new ideas in a brainstorming format, so some of the ideas may seem strange or not suitable - but surely they can be developed into something useful. We share these ideas with everyone. So, what we came up with (in the order of ideas):
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• You can give users other paid services - to pay an additional rating, a paid account, etc.
• Material gifts are an opportunity to present an item that is sold through the Internet: books, toys, home appliances, etc. You can realize it by entering into partnership agreements with online stores. Moreover, the user receives a virtual picture in the profile (“they gave me a book”) and a real gift.
• Collective gift (one of the ideas-leaders :) - the opportunity for several users to drop one expensive gift for a mutual friend!
• Integration with wishlist- s of users. In this case, each friend of the user can make a small part of the cost of SMS-Coy.
• Opportunity to give gifts - to give a bored gift to another.
• Gifts that operate for a limited period of time - for example, flowers that fade ("fade") after 3-5 days.
• Interactive gifts are animals that need to be fed, flowers that need to be watered so that they do not wilt. As an option - paid interactive, the user must support their livelihoods by sending SMS or a waste of points on the site.
• A useful widget is the ability to donate additional blocks to a profile - a weather widget, exchange rates, anecdotes or traffic jams.
• Gift incentives - gave 10 bears, got a flower (or just a rating)
• Anti - presents - something that interferes with the recipient or spoils the look of his page (for example, “blots” on a page that cover part of his profile)
• Voting for presents - other users can vote for a gift in the profile of the owner, this brings him (and the donor too) a rating upgrade.
• Donate “cat-in-bag” - the ability to buy and donate it is unknown what :) What exactly you donated is determined after the gift (or only the recipient sees it at all).
• Compound gifts - a gift consists of many pieces and is assembled as a puzzle. You can buy yourself and ask for the remaining parts as a gift. Assembled puzzle brings rating.
• Licensed content as a gift (mp3, photo, e-book, etc.) is a great idea of ​​affiliate programs with other resources.
• Give a simplified account - for older users :) All unnecessary functions are removed and only the simplest ones remain.
• Give the area on the moon in tiny pieces (for example, 10 by 10 centimeters)
• Choral greeting - the ability for several users to record their voices, from which a single audio file is made with a greeting.

As we see, in the process of brainstorming, very diverse ideas are born :) Not all thoughts are listed here - see the full list of ideas on the BrainEx.ru website. See - and realize whatever you want! We are happy to share these ideas with all web-developers: you see, gifts on the Internet will become more diverse and interesting.

PS Actually, the Brain Exchange club was created in order to solve interesting problems together, invent entirely new web solutions and discover new approaches to existing ones. Next time we meet on Wednesday 1st of April. The topic of discussion is being chosen right now by voting - come vote , and if none like it, offer your own . At meetings, we usually have a fun and friendly atmosphere in which brilliant ideas are born :) Come :)