Happy birthday

                        Happy Birthday

            As you probably know today is my 19^th birthday. So you can imagine since you have a facebook that I received a great deal of birthday related posts on my timeline. With all of these posts I wondered which ones I should comment on, which ones should I like, and which ones should I ignore. The answer was pretty simple after looking through them and yes I actually read all of them even though it was more than a 100 the timeline makes it really easy to see the posts.

 The ones I commented on were the ones that were actually amusing and that I can see the person who posts it actually value our friendship and took the time to come up with a post that I actually wanted to read. I simply liked the ones where a person called me a nickname or added something to the message that made it mean something. I ignored the generic ones where all they wrote was “happy birthday” because it made me feel as though they just happened to look on the side of their screen and then post out of obligation. I know this happens because people who have not talked to me since I graduated high school left their generic posts.

It made me wonder why people do this. It does not make me feel loved to see that so many posted on my timeline meaningless words that have been repeated for the last 40 people it is just annoying. If you are going to take up space on my newsfeed make it worthwhile or do not post anything at all. It is only 7 and the words happy birthday have already lost all meaning to me and if anybody else posts it on my timeline I will be upset. The worse thing is when a close friend posts something generic and it makes e wish they did not post anything at all if that is all they have to say to me. The next time you see it is someone’s birthday on facebook please come up with something more clever than “happy birthday”.