How Do You Celebrate Birthdays on Facebook?

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PR Newswire 17-Aug-2017 7:09 PM
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Come on, you know you do it...rely on Facebook to remind you when your friends have a birthday coming up?
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Well, don't worry, you're not the only one! Did you know that every day more than 45 million people give birthday wishes on Facebook? That's a lot of well-wishing!
Facebook has announced two new birthday experiences that can make celebrating with your friends even more meaningful. But first, let's take a little walk down Facebook memory lane for a nostalgic look at how celebrating birthdays have evolved on the social network through the years.
2005, Events: Facebook rolls out Events, previously called My Parties, to help people organize their birthday celebrations and other events.
2011, Timeline Posts: Timeline is launched, creating a place to capture all birthday activity from friends, including photos and posts.
2013, Notifications: When a friend has a birthday, people receive notifications reminding them of the special day.
2014, Cards: Facebook aggregates a person's birthday messages to visually show them all the celebratory sentiments.
2016, Video Cam: People are offered the opportunity to record a 15 second birthday video to their friend.
2016, Personalized Video: The day after a person's birthday, a personalized video is shared with birthday posts and photos from a person's Timeline.
Now Facebook is adding two more experiences to make celebrating your own birthday more meaningful or, making it a more special day for your friends.
2017, Birthday Fundraisers: Birthdays are great. You know what's even better? Using your birthday to raise money for a good cause. For those in the US, Facebook introduces birthday fundraisers so people can create a fundraiser for a meaningful cause. Two weeks before your birthday, you'll see a message from Facebook in your News Feed giving you the option to create a fundraiser for your birthday. You can create a fundraiser for any of the 750,000 US nonprofits available for fundraising on Facebook. Your friends will receive a notification inviting them to support your cause in honor of your special day.
2017, Video for Close Friends: Sharing a special messagewith your close friend just got easier and more fun. Made especially for people to share with their closest friends, these personalized videos are shown on the day of a close friend's birthday.
Birthdays have always been a part of Facebook. Now you can wish your pals a happy birthday in even more meaningful ways!
CONTACT: Lisa Stratton, lstratton@fb.com
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