Use your networks to send out cards

If you are like me and you spend quite a bit of time hanging out on social networks social media websites online, then you know that your friends’ and family members’ birthdays and other special occasions tend to pop up out of nowhere, and you are left to scramble and purchase something online and send it to them.

You can now use the same social network or social media website that you are on all day long to buy and send gift cards online securely. E-commerce startup Friendgiftr is the first to launch a special new service that lets you send gift cards through your favorite social network. In fact, you can now send gift cards from retailers and merchants like the Gap, Pottery Barn, Barnes & Noble and Starbuck’s. And you can send gift cards through five different social media web sites: Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Ning and Bebo.

Friendgiftr’s one-of-a-kind network is the first and only social media-based online storefront to offer actual purchasable retail and restaurant gift cards to hundreds of millions of social media site users.

Using the Friendgiftr application, you can buy or send gift cards that are valued between $10 and $100. Send them to just about anyone, including friends and family members. It doesn’t matter what the social network is , the process of buying a gift card using the Friendgiftr application is the same to make a purchase. Just select both the card and the amount. Enters the recipient’s name, their email address, and a personalized message. Then put in your payment method. That’s it.