Shopping for your extended family can be a wonderful opportunity to communicate your best wishes to family members whom you perhaps do not see regularly. You can, as many people do, send them a gift which is intended to amuse them, or you could send them something which you enjoyed, and you think they will as well. This can be useful as well, as you can create a discussion about a book for instance. Books are can be a good gift, but some people find reading to be burdensome, so it may not always be appropriate. Young people have the added benefit of being able, at least with more regularity, to buy games for other young people, which with the current multiplayer online games which are around, can become an activity people who are separated by distance can enjoy together.