"It happens every year whether you want it to or not: your Facebook wall is assaulted by people you haven't heard from in six years with birthday greetings. The one-line exclamations tend to be the generic type of happy birthday wishes that used to hide behind the five dollar bills in greeting cards from distant family members. In a neatly packaged metaphor, Facebook birthday greetings represent the problem that the social network has become. Always billed as a place to connect with your real friends, Facebook is now crowded with shallow or even fake relationships."
The Problem with Facebook Birthday Greetings
Between this, and the original Plotz piece (H/T to FAU for that), I have a little bit of guilt when I decide to say hello to someone when Facebook lets me know that it is their birthday. It may be another way to overthink my place in relationship to social media, and it most definitely is wanking of a sort, but I now think about it. Thank you for ruining my nice gesture, Plotz.
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