I hate birthdays more on facebook. I keep wanting to post "saying happy birthday doesn't count when it's prompted by your fb login" but each day seems to be someone's birthday and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
I also hate birthdays.
I like random contacts, hellos, thought of yous. Sent you one a bit ago which from me means more than babby hirpday.
I, for one, will always remember your birthday... I have a built-in reminder for it ;)
And by your FB postings, you're off enjoying the nightlife in the big city. Perhaps one year, maybe/hopefully soon, I'll convince my family around here to celebrate mine with a lunchtime outing, and then I can take a spin around the lake and we can toast our mutual event with a fine, vintage Diet Coke :)
It's hard. Honestly, to me birthdays mean very little (I've never understood why other people do things like take the day off). But I try to understand that it might be important to others. And I feel like, given the FB prompting, I'm snubbing someone if I don't wish them a happy birthday.
I figure, in the grand scheme of things, whether I wish someone a standard HB or not matters very little. So I do it, and figure they won't mind too much. :)
I have to admit I am a FB "Happy Birthday" person. I don't know that it has a lot of sentiment for the most part but I don't think it is worse than nothing.
At least FB doesn't have an option to automatically post it at some random time during the day, you still have to choose to say it.
I'm fairly sporadic about posting "Happy Birthday!"s, mostly because they do seem like such a weak form of celebration. But then sometimes, afterward, such as now, it feels like a weak celebration would've been better than no celebration at all, so... err...
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I also hate birthdays.
I like random contacts, hellos, thought of yous. Sent you one a bit ago which from me means more than babby hirpday.
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And by your FB postings, you're off enjoying the nightlife in the big city. Perhaps one year, maybe/hopefully soon, I'll convince my family around here to celebrate mine with a lunchtime outing, and then I can take a spin around the lake and we can toast our mutual event with a fine, vintage Diet Coke :)
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I figure, in the grand scheme of things, whether I wish someone a standard HB or not matters very little. So I do it, and figure they won't mind too much. :)
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At least FB doesn't have an option to automatically post it at some random time during the day, you still have to choose to say it.
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I'm fairly sporadic about posting "Happy Birthday!"s, mostly because they do seem like such a weak form of celebration. But then sometimes, afterward, such as now, it feels like a weak celebration would've been better than no celebration at all, so... err...
Happy Belated Birthday? :)
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