I’ve made my LAST Happy Birthday Facebook wall post. I’m done with making Facebook wall posts wishing my friends happy birthday. Don’t misunderstand. I think wishing people, particularly friends, a happy birthday is very important. I’ve just had enough of what I believe the Facebook happy birthday post has become. Obligatory. Worse, disingenuous. It’s the easy way out. I admit it’s convenient and I made an effort to drop a note on every friends wall on their day. There is even an app that would remind me. And yet I and you have probably forgot or missed the day. That leads to the “oh sorry for missing saying HB to you yesterday” post. You probably didn’t notice that I had removed my birthday from the public view on Facebook a few years ago. Even though I am sure most of our wishes are genuine, these type of social media activities are cheapening authentic interactions. I want to know you actually REMEMBERED it was my birthday! I want YOU to know that I remembered yours. Did I really think the 7000 wishes on my wall were from all these friends who had waited in anticipation to send this message on my wall? Well, ok, obviously not as I don’t have 7K friends – on FB. Do you think the hundreds of FB happy birthday posts are for real? I don’t. Sorry. I will admit that there were too many that I personally made that were obligatory. You know, the really quick […]
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