The Birthday Let Down

[kelowna]

You think i'd have grown accustomed to this after the 20 odd years of doing this sort of thing: celebrating my birthday

Comments

[nolovelost]

hah i just posted happy birthday before i read this. it's true. but i don't tell everyone happy birthday. i would have to say it every fucking day it seems because my friends list is kinda big. so you are kinda special to me!

[jukebox_heroine]

omg box!!!!!

[djpsyche]

I feel the same way -- every birthday since Facebook I get ten times more "Happy birthday!" posts. And I don't like them. I would like to get "happy birthday" posts from people who REMEMBERED it was my birthday, not people who saw it in their homepage feed. That would be more meaningful. Also, I really don't want to respond individually to all the no-effort birthday wall posts, but I feel that not doing so makes me rude.

I only do wall posts when I remember the person's birthday was around this time. I rarely remember exact dates, but I will remember the person's birthday was "early January" or "September twentysomething". If I remembered it independently of Facebook, then I'll post, otherwise not.

[_doa_]

My friend taught me that if you want people to care about a birthday you have to really exaggerate it at least a week in advance...and then when it comes you have to be the one to go nuts about it.

I like to walk around screaming IT's My BiRtHdaY all day.

Happy Birthday!

[mark_argent]

man facebook has been a godsend for me because it reminds me of everyone's birthdays. if I was really clever I'd go through Facebook and add birthdays to my iCal and set up alerts. but just because I don't keep more than half a dozen birthdays in active brain-meat memory doesn't mean I don't care.