Birthdays come and birthdays go. And more often than not we miss wishing our friends, all thanks to the hurly-burly of our lives. This is especially true of our online network of friends too. Even with Facebook birthday reminders we forget to wish them on time. We may not be logging in every day, or we may just be blind-sighted by the torrent of interesting posts that ram into our profiles each day. It’s paradoxical, but isn’t technology supposed to come in handy when our memory fails us?
With a site like birthdayFB you can say that all hope is not lost yet. birthdayFB is a neat little Facebook “helper” that automatically posts birthday wishes on the walls of your Facebook friends. So, let’s call birthdayFB a real face-saver and a truer friend. Just likeSean, a loyal reader who sent us this very handy tip. Don’t forget to thank him in the comments.
There are quite a few apps of its ilk, but the best thing about birthdayFB is that it does not let your friends know that you are relying on a third-party tool to remember their birthdays. The secret stays safe with the web service. Here’s a screen from the homepage that shows how the site sets about sending the ‘Happy Birthday’ wishes to your friends. It’s a simple 3-step process:
How to Use birthdayFB to Customize Auto-Posting Birthday Wishes on Facebook Walls
Now, let’s connect with Facebook and see how it actually works from the inside. birthdayFB asks for permission to access your data. Note that birthdayFB will post scheduled birthday wishes as ‘you’ and won’t leak that it’s scheduled via a tool.
After that you can see a list of upcoming birthdays. I have blanked out the names deliberately for privacy reasons.
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