Taking advantage of the fact that people like to receive gifts, Facebook has this feature whereby anyone can send a ‘gift’ to any of their friends. A gift, it turns out, consists of a little icon with a personal message attached to it. And it costs real money to send one.

Ever had someone tell you that instead of buying you a gift for your birthday, they were giving it away as charity? That wasn’t…fun, was it? Now imagine that instead of charity, they gave it away to Facebook. Here is some cash Facebook, so that my dearest friend gets a silly little icon as a token of your appreciation. Lame.