Wishing facebook 'friends' (ie acquaintances) happy birthday ?

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why do people say happy birthday to everyone and anyone they are friends with on facebook, even though they never see these people, nor do they plan to see these people, nor did have not have any contact with these people between leaving school and facebook being developed ?

I'm just as guilty of doing this. I am only facebook friends with school people just to be nosey. Some of them were not very pleasant at school. Admittedly that was 30 years ago now.

None of them give a rats arse about me, why would they and vice versa, yet here we are wishing each other happy birthday. Odd ?

The people are just trying to be friendly I would think.

Because it's nice? There was a woman in Tesco today with a 'Birthday Girl' badge on and I wished her a Happy Birthday... because it's nice. Didn't matter that I didn't know her from a bar of soap.

Yeah, it's just a nice thing to do even if it only takes a second.

I always send a text to people to wish them happy birthday, more personal. I do wish happy birthday to family members on Facebook, ie nieces, cousins etc whose number I don't have, if I remember.

I find Facebook is more for people who want to show off more than anything!

Yes it's nice but we wouldn't have sent birthday wishes to these people pre Facebook if we didn't keep in contact with them.. and for most of them I didn't keep in contact and the same for them.

Why are you FB friends with people you don’t like?

Exactly this if you're not wishing me happy birthday or interacting with my posts in anyway ever and ignoring me in life. Then why would you want to be friends with me on Facebook its weird .

This is where it's truly Fakebook. Stop adding people as friends just so you can be nosey and keep tabs on them. It's just weird.

Because it’s nice! It’s my birthday today I’ve spent it mostly alone and it’s been nice that people have taken a nano second to wish me well.

Don’t be such a misery guts!

You do it because you can, Facebook makes it possible, and if you don't give a traditional happy birthday greeting to a person when you know it's their birthday, and they know you know, it just wouldn't be very sociable would it?
People interact socially online, even with people they wouldn't like so much IRL, so it's just part of the social nicety game.

Easy just don’t then.
Not really a big deal.
i couldn’t care who wished me Happy Birthday on Facebook or not. All I care about are my friends and family and that’s via private message.
I quite ambiguous if I do sometimes I do sometimes I can’t be bothered.
but people I care about always send a very nice personal message.

I send cards to my closest friends and often a text too, text to some others and FB to others too. I think it's a good thing that it allows you to send birthday wishes to more people than you would otherwise, not a negative and I don't notice anyone showing off on there, but then again I'm only friends with people I actually like.

How many friends do you have on Facebook?

I don’t have randoms or old school friends, I just have family and close friends who I’m in contact with on a regular basis.