Facebook Prompts Users To Buy Gifts On Valentine's Day

Did you forget to plan something special for your significant other on Valentine's Day? Facebook would rather you skip getting a rose from outside of the gas station and instead get your special someone a Facebook Gift. Users who are in relationships have been prompted on desktop and mobile to buy gifts for their partners, and those who are single have been asked to buy gifts for friends.

Did you forget to plan something special for your significant other on Valentine’s Day? Facebook would rather you skip getting a rose from outside of the gas station and instead get your special someone a Facebook Gift. Users who are in relationships have been prompted on desktop and mobile to buy gifts for their partners, and those who are single have been asked to buy gifts for friends.

Users who are in relationships or married have seen various prompts to buy Facebook Gifts:

Users also received mobile prompts to buy Facebook Gifts:

If users aren’t in relationships, they are still asked to buy nominal gifts for friends:

Readers: Are you seeing any different prompts for Valentine’s Day on Facebook?

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