It’s my birthday today.
I have spent the day much as any other, copious quantities of toats followed by a good hate of Jeremy Kyle’s contestants. Then to work! HTML this, CSS that and a sprinkle of PHP goodness today. Now it’s time for the computer to be put to bed for the weekend (or at least until the missus wants me to design something for her). Nothing out of the ordinary there.
The one thing that has been strange is the constant stream of notifications of timeline posts on bookface. For all the time I’ve been on bookface I’ve made a point to wish someone a happy birthday via said medium. After all, good ole bookface doesn’t let you forget, does it? Recently though, I have noticed that instead of people saying thank you, they just “like” my post.
So today I thought I’d do the same. I got 60-odd mentions which is roughly 10% of my bookface friends (and incidentally the ones safe from the next cull) and most of them got a “like” on their post. I did write a comment on some, ranging from the word “kibble” to some fluffiness on my missus’ post. But mostly they were “liked.” And I feel unclean for it. Is “liking” a bookface post the new thank you letter? Will this happen at Christmas? Are we going to list what we bought each other on our timelines and just “like” to say thank you?
I’d like to think that this year was an experiment. Next year I’m going to copy and paste “thank you” on each and every one. Which is still a cheat, but surely better than a “like.”
As I write someone has posted “season’s greetings.” The 10-ish% of my friends that posted are a very random but brilliant bunch. Thank you all for your wishes.
I’ll leave you with a photo of the blu-ray player my missus got me, as it arrived. I got wrong off the missus for peeking. I’d have to be Ray Charles not to.
I think I said Happy Birthday on bookface, but incase I didn’t to avoid the cull, happy birthday here….. Hopefully i get more brownie points for reading your blog on top of the birthday wishes! hehe!