I don’t know how well publicized it has been, but there’s a Google website out there that let’s you send a personalized phone call from Santa to the person of your choice. Children are the obvious recipients for such calls, but you are limited only by your imagination, as demonstrated by one ABC reporter.
The ABC story gives you a little more background on the app than does the site itself. And you might want to make a test call to yourself to see exactly how it works.
All I know personally is that my five-year-old granddaughter got a call from Santa while she was up on the ski slopes a few days ago, and it absolutely made her day. It was also the first thing she told me about when she arrived over here for a visit yesterday. Santa had called her!
Anyway, it’s something fun to consider for the children in your life, or for the children-at-heart.
P.S. Just explored the site. You’ll be guided through a series of lists from which to choose specifics to include in your message (name, relationship, to whom, interests, foods, etc.) and then given a chance to preview the call — or video! — before you send it.
How wonderful! I am so glad your grand-daughter received that surprise call!!!
Her mom did it. Wish I’d been there to see her reaction.
I got a notice from Google about this the oyther day but, as you say, the site isn’t exactly information rich. I’ll check out the other link you gave so I can forward some useful info to my kids to make use of this for my grand-kids. Thanks! 😀
Is there some mailing list to get on for special Google announcements? I don’t get info like that (or maybe I missed it), and I’d like to.
I don’t remember signing up for anything. I guess I just thought it was part of the whole Google/Gmail package. I went searching through my old emails for the notice, but stopped once my head and eyes began to hurt! 😀
I have a Gmail account but rarely use it. Maybe there’s a notice in there.
BTW, your page is loading MUCH faster today! Did you change something?
No changes that would affect loading speed, as far as I know. I’ll admit I’m pretty lazy about optimizing pictures (it kills me to purpose degrade a high-quality image) and I should check my loading times more often at pingdom.com. A few days ago, everything on my browser was loading like glue; I assumed later it was my router failing.
I wonder if Google will put up an app like this to send people calls from the IRS. Now that would be a lot of fun.
🙂
You’re sadistic! 😉
OMG. that’s terrible… and hilarious! 😀