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A new Facebook application moves the White Elephant Exchange Party online, with gift sharing and conversation for family and friends this holiday season.

Albinophant is a mimic of the traditional Yankee Swap or White Elephant parties used in social circles in the US and Canada. With this online version, players purchase real gifts, share them, steal gifts from one another, and then the present for each individual is shipped to their door by conventional methods.

The party is hosted on Facebook so friends can easily join and invite others into the gift exchange within the social network platform. Each player uses custom ecommerce markets to shop for a gift, then they virtually wrap their present in preparation for the party to begin.

There is a common game play page in the AlbinoPhant application that acts as the virtual living room where all players gather for the fun. The game play page has a comment area where players banter, share videos and images, all while opening and stealing presents from each other.

The application is remarkably similar to the actions that millions are familiar with in the traditional White Elephant exchanges. But there are extra enhancements that are not possible with the regular event. Players can actually share a part of the party experience on Facebook, with friends not in the party, which expands the fun. In addition, posting YouTube videos in the party allows players to embellish their comments to other players. There is also a gift rating system and player awards built into the actions of the online party.

Hosting a party is simply a matter of joining the application, selecting a time to start and then scouring Facebook for those you want to invite. Explaining the rules is easy and the game allows players from any part of the US to join and share in the fun.

This year the Elephant in the Room has become active and is a party animal on Facebook. So invite your family and friends to join in an online fun party this holiday season.

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We have all heard the expression “The Elephant in the Room”. It is used to illustrate something big that shouldn’t go unnoticed, but yet is mostly ignored.

When discussing the monetization of social media, we can say that a sustainable business model is… the Elephant in the Room.

Soon, a new elephant will march out of the jungle and onto the pages of Facebook… And this social pachyderm is fully monetized!

AlbinoPhant, the white elephant gift party, uses a traditional party game, along with Facebook, Amazon and PayPal, to make money. What makes AlbinoPhant unique is that this application pulls its own weight without the need to fight for shrinking advertising budgets, like other social properties.

Here is the way it works: People buy gifts for use in the gift exchange, using eCommerce. Then they share the gifts with family and friends in the virtual atmosphere of a white elephant gift exchange, on a special playing page. When the party is over, the gifts they claim in the party arrive at their doorstep, using established shipping companies. This makes AlbinoPhant a gift merchant on Facebook.

You are probably scratching your head to figure out how you can play online with real gifts, without everyone being in the same place at the same time. Well, AlbinoPhant only uses the image of the gift that you have identified and purchased for the party. This allows for all party guests to virtually wrap a gift, participate in a virtual gift opening, then do some virtual gift stealing, and finally claim ownership of a gift from the party activity.

AlbinoPhant manages the party, provides the gift markets to shop within, and makes sure all the right gifts get delivered to the right addresses after the swap. Party attendees pay for a gift, the delivery costs and the fun, all at a flat fee,  selected in advance by the party host.

Hosts use the Facebook invitation system to gather their friends for the party. They also select the spending level for the party, between $15 and $50 dollars. This host selection system provides a level playing field for everyone, and reduces the challenge created by “big spenders” or “cheapskates”, when it comes to gift sharing.

So, the Elephant in the Room for AlbinoPhant is fully visible and a very useful gift merchant for the developers of the party. Advertising revenues will eventually become the bonus income that will be earned as the application makes its mark in the social media jungle.

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