World Participates In Biggest Secret Gift Exchange Ever At Reddit.com
The Reddit.com on-line community plans on exchanging at least several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of anonymous gifts to nearly 15,000 people in almost 90 countries. This should break the world record for an anonymous gift exchange.
- San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) November 20, 2010 - One community is taking the holiday spirit of gift giving and goodwill to an unprecedented level. The Reddit.com on-line community plans on exchanging at least several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of anonymous gifts to nearly 15,000 people in almost 90 countries. This should break the world record for an anonymous gift exchange.
The members of Reddit.com, a Web site where users share breaking news stories, photos, opinion and more, have gathered together in what may be the biggest secret gift exchange ever. Their sole purpose is giving for the sake of giving. Organizers have stated that while "handmade awesomeness is suggested, thoughtfulness is required!"
The giving spirit is certainly not new to Reddit.
Past projects include arranging for a cyber-bullied little girl with Huntington's Disease to have a limo ride to a toy store for a red carpet shopping spree amid cheering and high fives. Or they may send a WWII veteran truckloads of birthday cards, gifts, visits and flowers. They reunite family members, make dying dreams come true, find obscure Jeopardy clips and restore photos for funeral homages, give pizzas, wheelchairs and get health care for those in need. And then, just for good measure, they donate over $500,000 for teachers to fund classroom projects.
But mostly what Reddit tries to do is provide happiness and hope through random acts of kindness, albeit somewhat organized random acts of kindness.
That attitude led to this random gift exchange. Discussion of ideas and requests have been flying around Reddit for weeks. Recent commentary on Reddit has made it clear that many are opting for homemade gifts - original art, photos, music or items unique to their area. Clearly these people are taking the idea to heart.
The current Guinness Book record holder for the largest secret gift exchange was established by Boots pharmacy chain in the UK. The Reddit secret gift exchange is expected to literally decimate that record. While the current record is 1,500 secret gifts, Reddit is on track to exchange ten times that number of gifts.
Reddit is very excited about this global act of giving and let us all hope that this spirit of kindness make many people happy all over the world.
Further information is available at: http://redditgifts.com/ .
For More Information Contact:
- http://redditgifts.com/info/ ; or
- Daniel Johnston at redditsecretsanta2010 ( @ ) gmail dot com
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