It’s been more than a month now since I deactivated my Facebook and Twitter. I thought of reactivating them before my birthday, but I didn’t.
Here are the perks and downside of not having a Facebook and Twitter account on a birthday:
1. Text messages seem more special than a Facebook and Twitter greeting.
2. They remembered it! Not just because Facebook reminded them, or it was on their newsfeed, or because it was on their Twitter timeline.
Also, it will be less painful if someone you were expecting didn’t send you a greeting. There can be a lot of reasons you aren’t aware now.
3. You won’t be getting a p.m (private message on Facebook) or a wallpost from a total stranger.
4. You can’t annoy your Twitter followers by flooding their timelines with all your thank-you-replies.
5. You won’t be having this dilemma: Answering all your Facebook greetings with an obligatory “thank you”, or do nothing about them to look ungrateful or snob.
6. Greetings rush in when midnight strikes (while you are in your bed having a good night sleep).
7. They make a surprise visit and make the greeting more personal than a text message.
8. Remembering that person who didn’t greet you, then realizing you weren’t really that close.
9. Some of your “true friends” who are bad at remembering dates won’t get a reminder.
10. Your crush who really doesn’t know your birthday and doesn’t have your number, but was your Facebook friend (wish he followed you on Twitter too), can no longer greet you.
It’s still a happy birthday, I promise.
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