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Just curious... who of you wish people happy birthday via Facebook?
I do it some of the time, though really I avoid it as it seems very superficial to me. If you really care about somebody, it seems like you'd send them a card/present or visit them or something that takes a tiny bit of effort.
If the only reason you know it's somebody's birthday is because Facebook sent you a notification, then maybe it's not even worth the time to write/read the message wishing a person happy birthday.
How do you handle Facebook birthdays?
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Close friends get a text/call or a personal appearance if they are having a party.
Regular friends get a facebook message.
Acquaintances get nothing unless I happen to be talking to them for some other reason.
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You actually use Facebook?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Based on recently leaked documents, Facebook uses me.
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Sorry ... What is this Facebook thing?
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AspDotNetDev wrote: If the only reason you know it's somebody's birthday is because Facebook sent you a notification
I don't use Friendface, so the only reason I know it is anybody's birthday is because my phone reminds me. 
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This is why I don't have a Facebook account.
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I cross reference a personal database with all known birthdays via a back-end call to Facebook (FB) API's within my personal FB application.
Once a match is identified, an auto-responder posts to that "friend's" wall using one of 276 preformatted birthday wishes, all of which are customized to give the illusion of being a personal entry, including the occasional typo.
When that person posts a comment, my FB app will pick up on it and notify me via txt msg of the comment. If the comment is personal, other than a "hey, thanx!" or something, I will personally reply back. Only the rare person (other than immediate family) gets an in-person or phone call; that is, unless I'm single (of which I'm not  ) and they're a hot & single babe ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) (of which, I don't know of any such persons...  )
What's really funny is, I put my Birthday as January 1  on any and all websites, including FB, and people who've known me for years, even some close family, post "Happy Birthday" wishes on that day... 
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BCantor wrote: I put my Birthday as January 1
 One of the other reasons I don't wish people happy birthday on Facebook unless I personally know it's their birthday.
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Well, since you now know 1/1 is *not* my birthday, just post "HBDay!" each day for the rest of the year!! 
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Maybe they are using your application. Next time put some kind of copy-protection into your application.
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Feb 30th works on some websites. If that doesn't work, use Feb 29th 1900 (not a leap year). At worst, you'll only be inconvenienced once every 4 years (or 97 times every 400 years). Although, I do have a friend who is a genuine Feb 29th - she'll be 7 in 3 years time.
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FB is designed to actually notify "friends" that a birthday is on 2/29 during non-leap years and qualifies 2/28 as the birthday.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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I use it for people who I know use Facebook often. For me it's a huge waste of valuable time, but I have some friends around the web who use nothing else to communicate. If I don't wish a Happy Birthday there, they'll never see it. Other than that, I have little use for it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Reading the replies I am happy that I am not the only one without a facebook account.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Facebook
Friends don't let friends Farcebook.
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If it's someone I usually hang out with on my birthday or their birthday, then I try to say something.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: How do you handle Facebook
By putting it in the hosts-file, located under \Windows\System32\drivers\etc.
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Ah, so you redirect all your web traffic to Facebook's IP address, thereby maximizing your Facebook usage? A most excellent idea!
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Interestingly facebook has figured out when my birthday is by people posting messages to me. I've never entered my DOB but it keeps suggesting that I update my profile with their suggested date which, disturbingly, is correct.
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Yeah, it keeps getting creepier. Recently, it has been saying "Do you want to tag [So and So]?", and it has never been wrong about who is in the picture.
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Although I have had it try to track objects as people before...
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Probably tracks whenever people wish you a happy birthday, regardless of what date you put on there. Would be a clever way to find people lying about their birth dates. Not sure why they would want to do that other than maybe tracking the minors that aren't supposed to be on there.
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I do.
I don't think it's superficial. Everyone I wish happy birthday on FB seems to appreciate it.
/ravi
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Are you sure they don't just say "thanks for all the birthday wishes everybody; they really made my day!" out of guilt and thinking they should show some form of appreciation?
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