desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2007-06-28 11:00 pm

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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.

Re: "I feel like birthdays have jumped the shark."

[identity profile] smarriveurr.livejournal.com 2007-06-29 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ahem. Dude, [livejournal.com profile] desh, I know my birthday is coming up in August... and if you get me one gift this year... have it be not doing that.

Thank you in advance. That is all.