Although is good that Facebook can remind us of all the 9,999 friends birthday dates that our little brain cannot hold together, but I also find this features a bit hypocrite. What happen to the good old traditional thinking where good friends remembers your birthday? Just because you got so many birthday wishes on Facebook, does that counts into your popularity or is it because Facebook says is your birthday and hence other people wishes you. Are the wishes given sincerely because they remember or is it simply because Facebook told them so? I didn't put my birthday date on Facebook. The main reason is to see how many true friends out there who can remembers my birthday and secondly is for privacy purpose.
Facebook is not the only thing we can rely on for birthdays date. We have diaries and calendars to mark them down, with the technologies nowadays, we can get instant reminders on our phones. Then there is something call a phone. We can always pick up the phones and give our friends a call. If the friends mean so much to you, I think they deserves the call despite being so far away. Is only once in a year after all and wishing them on Faebook sounds quite cheap to me. Even a text sounds so much better than sending them a birthday wish on Facebook. Is like telling them, they are not worth your time and money.
Sounds a bit harsh? maybe, I just thought that friends deserves more than a Facebook birthday wish...
