Add Owls and Howlers to send gifts and messages to friends.

RineGilbert

I would like to be able to send gifts to friends. I was thinking the developers could create an option to obtain a personal owl, either by earning special coins through an event or challenge and using the special earned coins or regular coins to purchase the owl of your choice from Diagon Alley. Then your owl could send gifts you obtain to your friends.

Also would like to see an option to send a howler to friends.  The sender would voice record the message that when received, the recipient would play the recorded message (and the senders voice would increase in volume) and add a feature that if left unopened for too long (maybe 24 hours) it would “explode” (receive a notification “bang”).  Howlers could be sent to one friend or to a group...it could be any message you want to send; could send to your friends to meet up at a fortress.  It should have the capability to select and choose who you want to receive the message.

The sender could even have an option to choose when the message would explode by....if wanting to meet up at a fortress by a certain time, then select time to open by. Receiver and sender receive a notification that howler exploded. This would let sender know that their friend didn’t open the message, so if it was to meet up, sender will know the friend or friends that won’t be meeting up.

These additional options would increase interactions with friends!

Siragaz

This, and several other social features which currently already exist in Niantic titles should have been in at launch.