from Hacker News

Do Facebook B’day wishes mean anything?

by gapo on 6/14/11, 1:12 PM with 5 comments

• by mithaler on 6/14/11, 2:02 PM

  I have a friend who once spent an entire month logging in every morning and setting his birthday to the current day. And yes, he did get many, many erroneous birthday wishes from people who didn't notice anything was up.

  As for me, I don't list my birthday to anyone. I don't like receiving those post floods. (In fact, really, the only information I list is contact info, since I only use FB for keeping my contacts up to date.)

• by datr on 6/14/11, 2:52 PM

  I reached a similar conclusion a while back and actually ended up writing an app that would automatically wish friends happy birthday when I was trying to get to grips with the facebook api: http://blizzardsystems.co.uk/dr/node/44