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
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A link to a list of free software the person may like (copy and paste them into an email or any document)
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A link to web pages the person may like (copy and paste them into an email or any document)
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Free library membership (lookup your Local Library online)
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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)
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Advise eg How to manage
Money
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This Document
Time (The one virtual thing you can not in reality give)