Facebook Prompts Users To Give Gifts When Friends Share Good News
Facebook is continuing to push its Gifts program, but this time, users are being prompted to give gifts based on keywords in friends' status updates. As sister site Inside Facebook discovered, when some users post that they've got good news, such as new jobs, their friends can also see a button suggesting that they purchase a Facebook Gift. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllFacebook that the prompt is triggered by keywords.
Facebook is continuing to push its Gifts program, but this time, users are being prompted to give gifts based on keywords in friends’ status updates. As sister site Inside Facebook discovered, when some users post that they’ve got good news, such as new jobs, their friends can also see a button suggesting that they purchase a Facebook Gift. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllFacebook that the prompt is triggered by keywords.
Some users are seeing this, but the only examples that Inside Facebook has seen so far are to congratulate users on new jobs:
It seems that Facebook has implemented algorithms from Karma, which the company purchased ahead of launching Gifts.
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