Today was a kind of memorable for my facebook use. today I got a birthday reminder for a colleague. I was wondering if he really had his birthday today because I thought it was another day. But there appeared already a lot of wishes on his wall from other friends so I was a little bit more convinced. Even I still had my doubts because the guy don't appear with his real name and he is always a bit concerend about security stuff. So I stayed a bit skeptical. But anyway I did not want to be inpolite and so I wrote something on his wall as well: "Is it really your birthday today? Well, that have fun to celebrate it. Happy birthday." A few minutes later I got already a very ironc comment from another colleague who meant that this day is very memorable. And later the supposed birthday boy answered that it's just his avatar who is celebrating his birthday today. How funny but there came still a lot of wishes from other friends... It seems that through the birthday reminder a birthday wish does not have any value anymore. There is no effort needed anymore to remember a day and you get hundreds of whishes. Maybe in the future Facebook will extend his service and no effort will be needed at all because an automatic generated wish can be generated. How easy would that be. Than everybody can get 1000 wishes. 1000 meanless congratulations from virtual friends.
