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A friend entered a fake birthday when joining FB, thinking it was not really something FB needs to know about. The amount of greetings and happy wishes on one random winter day greatly amused him.
I was always perplexed by Facebook's decision to get rid of the birthday gifting system (on someone's birthday, you could pay FB $1 to give them some sort of picture as a gift). It wasn't popular among my friends at first, but it eventually got to the point where every time it was someone's birthday, they got at least one gift from someone. I can only imagine that if Facebook had pushed it hard enough, it would only…
If you could get it tied into the networks and built up as something of a tradition within Facebook/Twitter /Pinterest (as you said, Facebook would be perfect for it), it could get some traction.
Maybe have it trawl recent posts for gift suggestions in various price brackets.
Facebook really needs a 'friend clean up' tool ASAP. The problem of having irrelevant friends is huge.
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Why does a nice sentiment have to have a point?
Could probably rephrase this, as a nice sentiment can be very nice with no point at all. But the "happy birthday!" messages on facebook, imo, have lost their meaning and relevance a long time ago. There's no thought or effort that goes into this action. In the early stages of facebook, there was still a couple more steps that had to be taken to get that message to the old acquaintance. Thus, albeit small, a little mo…
A friend entered a fake birthday when joining FB, thinking it was not really something FB needs to know about. The amount of greetings and happy wishes on one random winter day greatly amused him.
My brother entered a false day intentionally thinking that it would be it would be a good way to filter genuine from empty happy birthday wishes.
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> When you consider the ways in which, say, the introduction of the telephone changed society, Facebook just looks silly. Or maybe just less elegant. Part of the problem is there's not really an obvious problem to solve. In the case of the telephone it was like: "what if you could talk to someone instantly across hundreds or thousands of miles, without a telegraph operator !". Then they did a lot of hard work to buil…
"Part of the problem is there's not really an obvious problem to solve." Isn't that just a nice way of saying that Facebook isn't useful? I think the interesting take-away from this article is not so much that Facebook has changed the context by adding features that include a larger network of people, but rather that perhaps Facebook is most useful when you use it exclusively with a small network of people with whom…
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Why does a nice sentiment have to have a point?
there are apps that just send automatic messages so it's not even a sentiment sometimes
> We at Random Forums just wanted to email you to say happy birthday!
Who. Cares.