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If wishing a Facebook friend along his birthday isn't enough, users can now attach real gifts to their greeting with an swollen gift service that the mixer networking Website announced on Thursday.

Facebook has now gaping up its Gift service to millions of users in the U.S., and likewise has added to a greater extent endowment options aside partnering with more retailers, the company said at an free-and-easy event hosted at the famed FAO Schwarz storage in New York City.

Users can attach rattling gifts to a greeting along Facebook, which is at last delivered to the recipient. Facebook is now offering hundreds of products from hundreds of partners. The new partners announced on Th include Brookstone, Dean and Deluca, L'Occitane, Indulg Gap and Lindt. The gift options besides include subscriptions to sites like Hulu Plus Beaver State Pandora.

Attaching gifts is as relaxed every bit attaching a photo, said Robert Edward Lee Linden, World Health Organization runs the Gifts armed service for Facebook, at the event. In one case a gift is related, the recipient will be notified by email and along mobile devices that a empower has been received. The recipient can preview the gift, and make changes, and add their merchant marine address to where the product put up be delivered. Facebook handles the defrayal processing and merchant marine.

The sender put up pay for the gift immediately operating theatre at a later time. The gift can exist private Beaver State publicly noted on a Facebook account, Lime said.

For L'Occitane, the Facebook gift service offers a way to sell Thomas More products, aforesaid Jeff Petrosillo, a sr. e-commerce coach at the vendor of skin care and bodycare products.

The L'Occitane gifts offered via Facebook start at The States$19 and are available only in the U.S. The company is keeping its offerings elliptic atomic number 3 these are only if the initial days of the gift service via Facebook. Future additions could include swapping products for an in-store voucher, Petrosillo said.

Facebook initially announced the invest service on Sept. 27, and the initial inventory of gifts and partners was limited.

The service is currently available only in the U.S., and is an important initiative for Facebook. Company officials at the event said the gift-divine service is an untapped opportunity with a potential difference to grow in oscilloscope. It could ultimately act as a revenue generator, and help Facebook increase revenue from mobile, which has so far been seen as a fight off for the company.

Facebook went public in May with an first stock price of US$38. The company's stock was trading at $22.17 happening Thursday at close of market.

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's email cover is agam_shah@idg.com