This is a graph of how many people write me birthday messages on my Facebook Wall.
During my peak college years I was getting about 45 birthday wall posts a year. Just a few short years later I'm down to receiving 7. Even the breakdown of the 7 was a little depressing. 6 from my family and one from a guy at work. And one of those 7 was a very suspicious post from an Aunt followed immediately by a post from her husbands account. I know the only reason her husband even has a Facebook is so she can go and play more Farmville on it.
I'd like to chalk this up to people using Facebook less to wish people happy birthday, but they didn't make up for it with 38 texts or calls. It's just another data point of the trend of me having less friends than I did in 2009.
But here is some interesting analysis.
This chart adds in the number of blog posts that I write in a year to compare with the number of birthday FB wall posts. 2011 is projected. Maybe there is some correlation between blogging and people caring about me. Perhaps if I blog more this year, I'll have more birthday well-wishers next year. Hell, it's worth a try.
3 comments:
I can think of three possible reasons why this has happened.
1.Most of your friends don't use facebook that often. 2.You took your birthday off of your profile, which no doubt caused many random people not to post.
3. You have no friends. This is a distinct possibility, but seems highly doubtful. After all, I sent you a text didn't I?
Looking forward to a return text,
I think the lack of birthday on my profile played a big part. Maybe I'll add it for next year to see if there is an uptick. That, and blog more.
Its hands down the lack of bday on your fbook profile. How else is Prady suppose to know?
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