Facebook has made our lives easier in countless ways, adding new addicting features as it evolved from a digital yearbook to the social identity layer of our Internet lives. One of main features that ...

Two of my friends died within the last three years. By some coincidence, both of their birthdays fall in the beginning of July. So, twice this week, Facebook has reminded me to write “happy birthday” ...

Facebook turns 15 today, and it wouldn’t be wrong to describe this as its awkward phase. Its limbs have grown unexpectedly quickly, and it’s a bit clumsy walking down the hall, all gangly angles and ...

What’s more insincere than sending someone a happy birthday wish because Facebook told you to? Sending a dead friend a happy birthday wish because Facebook told you to. Yet, surprisingly, Facebook ...

There's nothing more heartwarming than sending your friend well wishes on their special day. However, gone are the days when you have to drop by your local greeting card shop to buy your friend a ...

Roughly 1 in 30 Facebook users tells someone Happy Birthday each day, showing Facebook’s first major emergent behavior is still going strong. Now Facebook is equipping the 45 million people sending ...

Karol Markowicz is a writer in New York City. She has worked on GOP campaigns in four states. We’ve reached a point in history where social media has been around long enough to require some etiquette ...

You are my Aunt Phyllis, who lives in Arizona. Happy Birthday, Eric!!! You are my co-worker who tries too hard. The one who is always inviting everybody to happy hour, forcing us to make excuses about ...

Have you ever turned off Facebook’s notifications or even deleted the app entirely on your birthday, simply to avoid the non-stop barrage of alerts that someone had posted “Happy Birthday!” to your ...