At the end of the day, does it ever really matter how many "happy birthday!"s were said to you? With social media, facebook particularly, your birthday is set on your profile, and a notification pops up for every one of your so-called "friends"... and generally about 1/4th of them will leave a "happy birthday, hope it's a good one" or some variation of that. Most of whom you probably have not talked to in the last six months, and you might get a few truly genuine well wishes, but if it weren't for facebook, would half of those people even have remembered that it was your birthday? Let alone have sent you a message with some personal pizzazz?
Even when I initially published this information, the birthday greetings were unoriginal and unextraordinary... I couldn't even tell you who said what to me. Social media has created this problem, and albeit I give it credit for making it easy to find old school friends, and "keeping in touch", but it's taken away the personal touches that were once found in handwritten letters, or greeting cards, without messages, at Christmas. It's now difficult for almost everyone to remember a birthday without first checking facebook. Let's not even get started with phone calls... now they're text messages, "Hello, mom. Is that you, I can't tell?"
I really only care for those few personal text messages from friends who remembered, without the little notification on the upper right corner of the website. Those few greetings mean more to me than having hundreds of "happy birthdays" from people who would not remember otherwise.
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