So it's my birthday. It's also Halle Berry's birthday, Jay Manuel's birthday and apparently the day that Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death. So hooray for us.
Thanks to modern technology and that kid from the Social Network, everyone on facebook can see that it's my birthday. And anyone who's anyone is wishing me a happy birthday, even people I don't know i.e. this one girl I've been facebook friends with forever and have never seen her nor heard anyone speak her name. Lord knows I love all this attention, but as I get older, the multiple well-wishers seem to blend together and I'm faced with a dilemma. In years prior, there would be a new notification for each wall post, so I would get notifications into the seventies if I went without checking it for more than a minute. Now all the notifications are crammed into one, so as I just logged on, I only had seven notifications. It was kind of upsetting.
But that's not the dilemma.
The dilemma that I face every year is what to do about these wall posts. I personally like when people thank me for wishing them a happy birthday, but if I commented on every wall post and said "thank you!" it would eventually get old and seem insincere. And kind of pathetic, like I didn't have anything better to do on my birthday. Obviously I don't, but that's beside the point. I mean of course I'm grateful for all the well-wishing. Who wouldn't be?
I could just post a status at the end of the day saying "Thanks everyone!" or some shit like that, but that seems even less sincere. The easiest option would be to "like" every wall post, but I've always seen that as a dick move.
I'm thinking about only commenting on/liking the ones that I feel deserve it.
Who am I kidding anyway? I don't really care about how people feel.
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