Bday Today

PTH2009

So Today (27th Dec) is my birthday and i dont feel a bit happy. I feel nervos that nobody will leave a happy Bday comment on my Facebook..

I know its not a huge deal but i look on all my friends profiles and they gat a max of 100+ Happy Bday comments on there bithdays. It would be annoying to not get one happy bday comment

carolinespring

Happy Birthday and I am sure you will have a pile of Happy Birthday comments on your FB page. Why is it so important to you that you do?

The main thing is that your family and close friends remember and that your special day is marked,

outdoor_miner

Well, happy birthday to you! I have a very close friend whose birthday happens to be on Christmas, so I can imagine how rough it is having a bday around this time.

Honestly I would think you would be used to it though, yeah? In any case, try not to let it get at you, after all it is only fb nonesense. I know that with my close friends, I call them and wish them a happy bday. I would much rather receive two phone calls from people that I know care about me than a hundred wall posts from people I have spoken less than ten words to.

Take care, though. Every one is in someone's thoughts.

lolli

Happy Birthday!!!

In fairness, all that matters is that your closest friends and family remember your birthday. It doesnt matter about facebook, people are only saying Happy Birthday because facebook tells them to.

woodchuck

Happy birthday :-)

Don't put any importance on the number of birthday messages you get on Facebook. I know when I post on a lot of peoples walls its purely because I've seen the notification on my news feed but never would have realised myself that it was their birthday. The fact that its the holidays means that there's bound to be less people on Facebook to see that its your birthday, but that should just make the messages from people you do hear from even more special because they've likely remembered without the aid of social networking sites :-)

A0

Happy Birthday! I'm not on FB and get 2-3 happy birthday wishes on my birthday, if you think about it, is it important? As long as people you really like and who like you remember...
FB has become something to massage people ego (i.e., "like", comments, having half a million of friends, etc.), don't fall into this :-)

The Lovely Muffin

Happy Birthday OP, I hope you have a wonderful day

As said by others here, it's nicer when someone texts you or rings you to wish you a happy birthday, FB messages don't really mean anything as FB is just a website, it isn't important, it doesn't (and shouldn't, in my opinion) have any impact on real life/reality.

I'd much rather one person who I speak to actually wished me a happy birthday rather then 100s of wall posts on FB of people I barely know/speak to wishing me a happy birthday, yes it's nice when they do, but it's not important, it is only a website after all.

Spend the day with people you love, doing something you love and don't give FB a second thought, it really isn't worth it.

Cheeky_gal

PTH2009 wrote: »

So Today (27th Dec) is my birthday and i dont feel a bit happy. I feel nervos that nobody will leave a happy Bday comment on my Facebook..

I know its not a huge deal but i look on all my friends profiles and they gat a max of 100+ Happy Bday comments on there bithdays. It would be annoying to not get one happy bday comment

Hey OP, Happy Birthday !

I know exactly where you're coming from. People on this can say things like "don't let it get to you, it's only facebook" but at the end of the day it will bother you.

I think you should delete your facebook, then in a weeks time you can claim it back. You won't lose anything when you delete it, you can start it up again as you left it.

That way you will never know who left you a bday comment because they won't be able to leave you one. I know soooo many people that delete their facebooks then a week later they're back on it !

ElleEm

Happy birthday

Little Miss Lady

Happy Birthday!
Hope you have a lovely one

Don't mind the facebook thing, I deleted my own one as it used to get to me a bit.
It's a page on the internet, not the real world, just remember that!!
Forget about it and concentrate on getting out and doing something nice to mark your special day

tenchi-fan

Happy Birthday!

Just to let you know, if you have your birthday as private on facebook then facebook will not remind your contacts that it's your birthday.

I have a few friends who either through messing or frape had two "facebook" birthdays in the one year, and each time got a lot of happy birthday posts.

Rhys Essien

Happy Birthday.

In case you might not realise,every person on this planet only has a small number of good friends.You might know a few dozen/hundred people but these are not real friends.

mr_edge_to_you

how did you used to feel before facebook kicked off? i only ever got cards from immediate family, grandparents and partner (when there was one on the scene).

facebook's importance in today's world is completely overrated. i have 90 friends on facebook - i have mobile phone numbers for 15 of those 90 which I use more often.

i get birthday wishes on facebook but to be honest these people aren't friends. if someone sent you a personalised text over the christmas or asked if you were going on stephens night is more of a friend. not someone from facebook that you probably went to school with 6 years ago and being honest would have had no real interest in how they were getting in life.

EGAR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns.

It is not important how many birthday wishes you get on FB. Your worth is not measured by how many comparative strangers feels obliged to wish you a Happy Birthday because it shows up on their newsline that today is your birthday.

Logical Fallacy

PTH2009 wrote: »

So Today (27th Dec) is my birthday and i dont feel a bit happy. I feel nervos that nobody will leave a happy Bday comment on my Facebook..

I know its not a huge deal but i look on all my friends profiles and they gat a max of 100+ Happy Bday comments on there bithdays. It would be annoying to not get one happy bday comment

Happy birthday OP,

do you have your birth date in your Facebook profile? If you do then it pops up a little reminder to people it's your birthday.

I don't, so very few folk in Facebook ever say happy birthday to me, the people that do always get tonnes of happy birthday messages. It's really more about the system reminding them than people actually remembering to be honest.

pickarooney

Happy Birthday OP

D-Generate

Birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

A0

D-Generate wrote: »

Birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

Your sadness will lead you to D-generation... Be happy, new year is coming or create a thread, we'll try to cheer you up

Ickle Magoo

D-Generate & AO - if you have no constructive advice to offer the OP, kindly refrain from posting.

PI is an advice forum, as you have now have numerous birthday wishes, OP, I'm locking this thread.