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[desh]

I feel like birthdays have jumped the shark.

I can't Facebook-comment to wish someone a happy birthday, because EVERYONE does that. Sometimes an IM works, but with people with whom I have more tangential relationships, the IM seems strained, and it's obviously a "trying to be different and not just comment on Facebook" effort anyway. I've always hated Hallmark, and besides, in order to send an actual greeting card to every person I know on their birthday, I'd need a raise at work. And I still hate phones, though maybe they're the way to go for some people.

And yet birthdays are too cool to just ignore. So what's left?

It's a conundrum. Conundrum, I say.

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[d-m.livejournal.com]

// if there really is an actual sentiment you want to
// convey on someone's birthday, then it seems to me
// like the medium doesn't really matter. and if not,
// well then it probably doesn't matter what medium
// you do use, or even if you do it at all. going through
// the motions is going through the motions.