Do Facebook B’day wishes mean anything? (opens in new tab)

(gauthamponnu.com)

9 pointsgapo15y ago5 comments

5 comments

5 comments · 2 top-level

mithaler15y ago· 2 in thread

I have a friend who once spent an entire month logging in every morning and setting his birthday to the current day. And yes, he did get many, many erroneous birthday wishes from people who didn't notice anything was up.

As for me, I don't list my birthday to anyone. I don't like receiving those post floods. (In fact, really, the only information I list is contact info, since I only use FB for keeping my contacts up to date.)

gapoOP15y ago

That's a brilliant experiment. Proves my point. But, not keeping ones birthday listed prevents the true contacts from reaching out to you. I've people who call me up on my birthday who although reminded by facebook at least called me up. Granted, it's not sincere, but at least we have fun catching up.

paramaggarwal15y ago

This is great! I am also setting my Facebook birthday to today. This is gonna be fun.

datr15y ago· 1 in thread

I reached a similar conclusion a while back and actually ended up writing an app that would automatically wish friends happy birthday when I was trying to get to grips with the facebook api: http://blizzardsystems.co.uk/dr/node/44

gapoOP15y ago

Ha ha ... That's a great tutorial and a brilliant idea. It could prove to be quite useful. But, somehow I can't bring about myself to using it - seems like loosing my last bit of humanity.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

5 comments

5 comments · 2 top-level

mithaler15y ago· 2 in thread

I have a friend who once spent an entire month logging in every morning and setting his birthday to the current day. And yes, he did get many, many erroneous birthday wishes from people who didn't notice anything was up.

As for me, I don't list my birthday to anyone. I don't like receiving those post floods. (In fact, really, the only information I list is contact info, since I only use FB for keeping my contacts up to date.)

gapoOP15y ago

That's a brilliant experiment. Proves my point. But, not keeping ones birthday listed prevents the true contacts from reaching out to you. I've people who call me up on my birthday who although reminded by facebook at least called me up. Granted, it's not sincere, but at least we have fun catching up.

paramaggarwal15y ago

This is great! I am also setting my Facebook birthday to today. This is gonna be fun.

datr15y ago· 1 in thread

I reached a similar conclusion a while back and actually ended up writing an app that would automatically wish friends happy birthday when I was trying to get to grips with the facebook api: http://blizzardsystems.co.uk/dr/node/44

gapoOP15y ago

Ha ha ... That's a great tutorial and a brilliant idea. It could prove to be quite useful. But, somehow I can't bring about myself to using it - seems like loosing my last bit of humanity.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse