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Virtual Presents
What are they?
Virtual presents only exist digitally. They do not exist in the physical world. Typically they are either emailed or a link to them, is emailed to the recipient.
It appears you can even virtually wrap your virtual gifts. http://www.virtualgifts4u.com/
In reality, virtual gifts are basically knowledge and time, both of which can be extremely valuably. There is a perception anything not physical does not have a value. Yet basically some of the world's largest corporations consist of nothing more than knowledge combined with time, for example Facebook and Google.
Why virtual gifts?
Benefits/advantages
- The old saying is it's the thought that counts. If that is true then there is no need to give a physical gift.
- More thought can be put into giving virtual gifts than physical gifts.
- Virtual gifts can cost nothing other than your time
- They do not have to be physically acquired
- They are easily created yourself
- They can be more easily tailored to a persons requirements
- Because they use less or no physical resources, they are environmentally friendly
- They take up no physical storage space
- They do not have to be maintained.
- They do not have to be disposed of
- They can be used over and over again
- They do not have to be transported
- They can be given instantaneously to virtually any person in the world
- You can send them to deceased persons
- You do not have to hand write or even type to give them. You can use voice recognition to type for you
- You can give the same one to multiple people
- There is no limitation as to how many you can give or to how many people you can give them to
Disadvantages
- People expect something physical
- They are perceived to have no value
- They can require more thought
- If creating them yourself, they can take some time to create
List of possible virtual presents
All those shown for free no doubout can also be purchased
- Photo of someone
- A photo of someone digitally enhanced or distorted
- A collage of photos of the person.
- A group of photos as a person ages
- Photo of something
- A photo with your personal creative efforts
- A self created video
- A Drone video over a person's house
- A video of the persons life (This is your life)
- Text and pictures of the persons life
- The genealogy of the person
- Digital books eg https://www.bookrix.com/books.html
- A YouTube Play list of YouTube videos you created See: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57792?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- A YouTube Play list of YouTube videos the person may like See: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57792?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- A link to a list of free software the person may like (copy and paste them into an email or any document)
- A link to bulk Auto installer of free software. https://ninite.com
- A link to web pages the person may like (copy and paste them into an email or any document)
- A link to interactive web based applications the person may like Eg. Spirograph Simulators, Coloring Book Simulators, Lego Simulators
- A link to free web based training courses the person may like eg https://www.coursera.org/
- A full Digital copy of a newspaper or magazine at the persons birthdate eg https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
- A domain name (They cost) eg https://www.domaincentral.com.au/
- A Digital calendar eg https://www.google.com/calendar
- Free magazines, Zino for Libraries eg. http://www.libraries.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=1606
- Free virtual library books to borrow egs https://openlibrary.org/borrow and Brisbane City Libraries
- Free library membership (lookup your Local Library online)
- Free Music egs https://www.audioblocks.com http://freemusicarchive.org/?
- Music you create eg. https://chrome.soundation.com/
- A Virtual musical Instrument eg http://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com/ Without Flash: https://www.igorski.nl/experiment/websid/
- Digital work you do for someone Some examples of what could be done
- Free membership to a web site
- The knowledge of how, when, where and why, of anything (Search for it with Google or Wikapedia and provide the links)
- A Digital birthday or greeting card Eg. https://www.holidaycardsapp.com/cards/birthday
- Advise eg How to manage Money
- Money see Anarchy Currancy
- This Document
- Time (The one virtual thing you can not in reality give)
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