Along with these gifts, users can also recommend to friends anything on iTunes.

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Once some students attend a program, they recommend it to friends back home.

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The mechanics: After each game ends, the players fill out detailed cards: age, sex, what did they think of its instructions, how unique is it, does it have replayability, would they recommend it to friends?

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And if those friends agree, they will, in-turn recommend it to their friends.

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We recommend it to our friends, it becomes hip, blah-blah-blah.

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Critics have lambasted the Dome for being "all glitter and no substance" but several surveys have found that the vast majority of visitors were satisfied and many would recommend the attraction to friends and relatives.

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You've got to be going to games and you need friends to recommend players.

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Airlines regularly survey flyers asking how likely respondents would be to recommend each of the carriers they use to friends and colleagues.

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We also were able to go to a fashion--a hair show--excuse me--in London, and here in America, we went to salons in Washington, DC, and also in New York City, and we asked friends to recommend women to us which we thought would give us a great story and also had a unique hairstyle.

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Alf and Andrew Shearer both recommend that family and friends of someone in the hospital try to be there for the patient as much as possible.

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