Thursday, March 6, 2014

Back on Top!

It's the post you've been waiting for an entire year to read. It's my now yearly post on the number of happy birthday facebook posts I receive and subsequently gripe about. Let me give you the executive summary:

I'm Back On Top, Baby!

That's right. I came in at a whopping 46 posts yesterday. It was a veritable who's-who of friend, family and acquaintances. I don't know what got in to people yesterday, but it seems like there was a pretty solid amount of posting. Include in that 2 email messages, 3 text messages, 4 physical cards and one facebook message; it was quite the haul.



Notes:
  • A return of Mr. Ray. After a mysterious year off he showed back up to wish my a happy birthday. Thanks Ray! 
  • Should I start trying to track this by percentage of facebook friends who leave me posts? My number of facebook friends hasn't grown much in the past few years, but it would be nice to measure this as a rate as opposed to absolute numbers. For future reference I currently have 587 facebook friends.
  • Do these blog posts influence the number of FB posts I receive? Some of my facebook posts did make mention of the blog post regarding their facebook posts. So who knows?


Either way, I'm now officially in my late twenties and it would seem that the high school and college friends that make up most of my facebook friends have been slowly drifting away from me. So to have so many of them wish me a happy birthday is just really special. Now to count how many people tweet at me for my birthday. (Hint: it's less than one, but I have to have something to gripe about!)