Attention parents of small children, children who have “figured out the Santa thing,” or people in general who like the holidays and/or want to play a prank on their friends: Google has given you a great gift in the form of Santa Claus robocalls! Now you can customize a personal message at Send a Call From Santa and have “Santa” call someone you know! Maybe a skeptical kid you know (we’re looking at you, Susan Walker from Miracle on 34th Street)! Or you can be more direct for the man in the red suit and leave him a Google voicemail, telling him exactly what you want for Christmas in hopes that somehow, maybe, you can spend your holiday at least deluding yourself into joy!
It truly is the season of giving, but let’s not also forget that the holidays just aren’t fun for everyone. Not the people who are genuinely sad for one reason or another. I’m talking about the Scrooges. The people who have to be a bummer around everyone and complain about the commercialization, their gripes about religion, materialism, capitalism … as a wise man once said, “there’s a lot of bad ‘isms floatin’ around this world.” And what do those people need? A call from St. Nick!
After entering in some general information about yourself, then you move on to the person to whom you’ll be sending the call. You can be either accurate or have a little fun with it:
There are even options if you don’t celebrate Christmas! And then you can preview the audio, adding a “No Peeking” option:
After that, you provide your calling information, their calling information, and then off it goes!
The other option is an actual voicemail to Santa. This is actually something that started last year, when Santa got his own Google Voice account. It’s still going on, and if your Christmas wish is the materialization of positive karmic reparations, you can leave the jolly old elf a voicemail at 855-34-SANTA (855-347-2682). Those calls are toll-free in the U.S. and Canada and 1 cent per minute outside of those areas. Right now, the calls from Santa are only available in the U.S., but they are free.
(via Mashable)
