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Facebook Gift Shop – Sorry, We’re Closed

On Thursday, Facebook announced that the three year old Facebook Gift Shop will be shutting down effective August 1, 2010.

Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for games and credits, noted:

“Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts. We’ll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the ‘Like’ button and the Wall.”

Previous gifts posted on walls will remain. Facebook Users will still be able to use the many third-party applications on Facebook for giving and receiving gifts.

It was nice receiving a gift from a friend on my wall, but I personally never paid to send a virtual gift.  Have you? If so, are you upset by this move by Facebook?