{"id":20712,"date":"2016-02-25T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifteen-staging.fifteen.dev\/blog\/can-facebook-put-the-happy-back-in-happy-birthday\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T10:10:28","slug":"can-facebook-put-the-happy-back-in-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifteendesign.co.uk\/blog\/can-facebook-put-the-happy-back-in-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Facebook Put The “Happy” Back In “Happy Birthday”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I am no cynic. I quite like the fact that people take the two seconds it takes out their day to click the notification and wish me a “Happy Birthday”, but I know there are many people out there who are not big fans of how impersonal Facebook has become. Okay yes, I have slightly more ‘friends’ on Facebook than I do in real life. Actually, probably about 85% of them I would struggle to name, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not chuffed when a “Happy Birthday” message rolls in. Yes, yes, I admit it, Facebook has made it extremely difficult to forget birthdays with countless notifications and even going as far as to write the message for us so we can just hit send. Where will it stop? Will Facebook start wishing people “Happy Birthday” without us knowing? Wishing “Happy Birthday” to people we haven\u2019t met yet? Not quite. But in the meantime\u2026<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s latest brainwave to come out of Silicon Valley was probably brought about by the rise to stardom of SnapChat.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right, we can now send special “Happy Birthday” videos to each other!<\/p>\n

The videos, which are 15 seconds long, come with special frames, and are then posted to your friends wall. There is no special photo montage reminding us of how good mates we are or a recap (however brief) of our interactions on Facebook (like we have seen with Facebook\u2019s \u201cfriendship day\u201d). The videos are the same as any other video posted on a Facebook wall; up there to be watched one at a time. I am not sure who came up with this idea but I am 100% certain I\u2019ll be sticking to the mindless SMS style birthday messages. No one needs my ugly mug snapped with that ever flattering front camera, ruining their special day.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I\u2019ll keep the ramblings to a minimum. Facebook now lets you send Happy Birthday videos. Update over.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, I am no cynic. I quite like the fact that people take the two seconds it takes out their day to click the notification and wish me a “Happy Birthday”, but I know there are many people out there who are not big fans of how impersonal Facebook has become. Okay yes, I have […]","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCan Facebook Put The "Happy" Back In "Happy Birthday"? - Fifteen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facebook have released a new function, hoping to make birthday messages personal again. 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