# If you use Facebook, how do you handle happy birthday wishes?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-use-facebook-how-do-you-handle-happy-birthday-wishes/680103
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-use-facebook-how-do-you-handle-happy-birthday-wishes/680103 "2014-01-30T04:09:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-use-facebook-how-do-you-handle-happy-birthday-wishes/680103/41 "2014-02-01T18:10:48Z")
After a certain age, no one should care about birthdays. That age is 13.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-use-facebook-how-do-you-handle-happy-birthday-wishes/680103/42 "2014-02-01T22:29:14Z")
Liking each one is a pain, as I’m not on often enough to see them as they come in. So I just do the generic thanks post. If someone I haven’t heard from in a long time says something, I may go ahead and thank them directly and ask how they are doing. My thoughts are that, either they also see it as a time to catch up, or they learn not to leave generic birthday greetings if they don’t want to talk with me. It’s win-win.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-use-facebook-how-do-you-handle-happy-birthday-wishes/680103/43 "2014-02-01T23:06:59Z")
I’ve noticed a bit of a pattern amongst those who wish “Happy Birthday” to others via Facebook; it tends to always be the same people doing it, no matter whose birthday it is. Some of my bday wishes are the only way I remember I’m FB friends with certain folk. And these folk do the “Happy Birthday\_\_\_\_” thing compulsively. Say they have 500 FB friends, well each and every one of those five hundred people will be getting a “Happy Birthday\_\_\_\_!” W-T-F. I never even thought to take my birthdate off my profile. Genius. THEN the birthday wishes will be well-received! 😛
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