Some familes and co-workers prefer to host Secret Santa exchanges, where you pick a name out of a hat and buy a present for that person. But, say you have like 20 relatives, or 50 co-workers. That's a lot of paper in one hat. Not to mention it's time-consuming to write out all of those names.

So, it only makes sense to resort to the Web.

Many Web sites today due in fact host the Secret Santa tradition. Among those sites are Elfster.com, GuestList.com, and SecretSanta.com.

This is how these kinds of sites typically work: You enter the e-mail addresses of all Secret Santa participants. Then the site makes matches and notifies all participants. Some sites even go as far as to make sure no one is assigned the same person two years in a row.

SecretSanta.com lets you choose your own party theme screens and set up exchanges for Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Elfster.com will arrange a small donation to a charity if the organizer of the Secret Santa event has specified a favorite charity.

What's great is that some of these sites you can use all year round, not just the holidays.

 [Found via Yahoo! News]