Facebook today announced Gifts , a new way to send chocolates, Starbucks cards, clothing, flowers, and other items to friends. “One of the challenges with sending physical gifts is that you have to know someone’s address, shirt size, or the flavor they like, or you guess and then you’re wrong,” Facebook’s Lee Linden says. “We’ve turned that on it’s head, removing the friction of sending somebody a physical product.” Facebook’s new Gifts platform lets the recipient know before they receive your gift so they can plug in their address, and even their shirt size dark / milk chocolate preference if you don’t know it. If the recipient isn’t happy with your gift, they can instantly exchange it for something else inside Facebook’s catalog of…

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Facebook gives Gifts another shot, guarantees no ugly sweaters in the wrong size

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