I fear showing my birthday on Facebook because of this.

[Cicero]

So when I first joined Facebook, I feared of putting my birthday of Facebook because of one thing:
No one will wish me a happy birthday on my birthday

I know it sounds stupid, but its a huge fear that no one will wish me a happy birthday or even worse, only 5-10 people will wish me one.

I'm really wanting to put this to the test, but what do I do if only 2-5 people do wish me one? Does anyone else feel like this?

Whenever someone else has a birthday, they get at LEAST 30 messages congratulating them.

I have 512 friends on Facebook

[xXl0sth0peXx]

Eh, you'd be surprised. I always expected like nothing but always ended up getting some. tbh, i don't think it's really anything to get worked up over. I think you'll get more than you think, and if you don't, who cares? I'd rather get a few birthday wishes from the people who mean something to me instead of a ton from the people who just go to my school or whatever.

If you're scared of being embarrassed by not getting any messages, you could always set your wall post settings to 'only me' so no one knows if you don't. I think you should go for it. I totally see where you're coming from with your fear, but I think you gotta just go for it. It'll turn out better than you think.

[workingatperfect]

I don't see the big deal. I only get 5-10 happy birthdays. Doesn't make me feel like a loser or anything, but then again, I only have 200 or so friends, and a lot of people would find that disappointing. I would rather get 2 or 3 sincere wishes than 50 from people I don't even like and know don't like. There's nothing wrong with not having tons and tons of friends.

[Jess]

I don't get a lot of them either. 5-10 is better than none.

[Abyssal Echo]

I don't see the big deal. I only get 5-10 happy birthdays. Doesn't make me feel like a loser or anything, but then again, I only have 200 or so friends, and a lot of people would find that disappointing. I would rather get 2 or 3 sincere wishes than 50 from people I don't even like and know don't like. There's nothing wrong with not having tons and tons of friends.

I have to agree with workingatperfect. I don't see the big deal. I have my Birthday posted and only heard from 3 of my friends. I don't consider myself a loser because of it.

[CharlieHorse]

Last year nobody said happy bday.
I didn't think about it really.

[West Coast Sheriff]

Well if you don't put it on Facebook you won't get any comments. :P

[SAR151]

Last year the only people who wished me a happy birthday was my immediate family and my roommate (at the time), the rest of my family didn't bother to call me or my few close friends, I didnt have a fb at the time and still don't so I didn't get a happy birthday through that. Like everyone has said, don't fret over it too much. Most people only wish you a birthday on fb because it gives them a reminder (at least when I had one it did) otherwise they probably wouldn't know its your birthday unless they're close to you. You'll have many more bdays in your life and by then you'll have different and maybe a lot more friends that'll wish you one and it'll only mean that much more instead of a simple message on fb. Sorry if I came off rude, not trying to be.

[CharlieHorse]

Well if you don't put it on Facebook you won't get any comments. :P

I did put it on.
I have like 500 or so friends, people I actually know in real life.
And I wrote a post like "yay it's my bday" and nobody said anything... :/ Idk...
I don't really care though.
It's just Facebook.

[SamanthaMaciel]

last year on my birthday only two people wished me happy birthday... so happened that everyone was offline at that time :/

[xAlfredo]

I feel the same as you.
My last birthday, about 15 people wished me happy birthday on Facebook.
I looked on other profiles, and they get like 50+ on their birthday.
It's so stupid, really.
Me, I always say happy birthday to people on FB when it's their birthday, even if I don't know them or don't like them but they're on my friends list. Some people are just ignorant.

[Fanta_Lover44]

Well.... i've got a massive ignore banner ontop of my head so i would only get 7/8. But you do have alot of friends so you would be surprised....

Skype me sometime, don't be afraid to send us a message! :)

[Gwen]

Dude, it doesn't matter how many Happy Birthdays you get on facebook. 512 people you may not even know directly, their Happy Birthdays don't benefit you or them. So what if someone else gets 30 messages and you get 5-10? No on will judge you unless they are just idiots. Stop being so worried about silly things like how many message you get from the Facebooks...

[Rayquaza]

Does it matter how many happy birthdays you receive? Be grateful that even a few people say it, because at the end of the day, it's those that don't need a stupid Facebook notification to know when it's your birthday are the ones your real friends are.

[xmojox]

If only 2-5 people wish you happy birthday, you thank them and don't worry about the people who didn't. Concentrate on what you have rather than on what you don't.

[Magus]

Nobody wished me birthday on my birthday on facebook. Guess what? I didn't die. I didn't give a lot of fuck.

[crazy_teen]

I also got a few wishes myself last year compared to the other years. I thought that people are busy with their lives as well and most of them are not checking their Facebook as often as they did before.

Just be happy and grateful to those few who will take time to greet you.

[Apollo.]

People wishing you happy birthday on facebook is one of the most irritating things ever phone.going.crazy with notifications all day and then having to thank people you barely know, your better off without it

[Sushi]

I agree it's more annoying than anything. If 50 people wish you happy birthday then you have to say thanks to that many people. :p it becomes obnoxious.

[SAR151]

Just make one post at the end of the day thanking those that wished you a happy birthday :) lol

[norcaldude18]

Why the heck do you care how many people wish you happy birthday on Facebook? I always get a bunch of birthday wishes, but a lot of them are just from random people I'm fb friends with. My true friends actually call me and/ or hang out with me on my birthday. Those are the birthday wishes I care about.

[crepesuzette]

yeah nobody ever wished me happy birthday, but even then, that did not keep me from stating my date of birth.

[crepesuzette]

it does not matter to me anymore. at some point, i realize that people cannot be forced to say whatever tehy don't want to say. it has made me feel like mine is not a big deal.

[HunterSteele]

Some people probably write Happy Birthday on the wall of everyone they see having a birthday without paying any attention to who it is. I didn't expect a whole lot on my last birthday but I got some. And the year before that I somehow left the "Allow friends to write on my wall" checkbox unchecked, so that's a fail on my part.

[JoeHillsTSD]

This year a few people wished my happy bday over social networks. But they were pretty good friends who had said something genuine and funny in the post.

Take my friend Brad, before he left my school I joked with him and promised him we'd go on the show The Voice and audition with the song Jesus Walks. He posted that he would hold me to that and that he wanted Kanye's parts. It was the greatest post I got, and I only got about 10 posts.

Plus, I went to school with a crown and birthday pin on so random people stopped me in the hallway and wished me happy birthday. :)

[CharlieHorse]

A good 10 people wished me happy b day on Thursday.
That's a problem, because now I guess people would miss me...

[Cognizant]

The thing is...do they really have 30 friends? Saying happy birthday on Facebook is almost meaningless, regardless if you get two happy birthday messages or 500 of them.

What's more meaningful is if any friends at school will say happy birthday.