Facebook wants you to film birthday messages for friends
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#14W0H)
One day all human interaction will go through the social network - until then, here's another way to spam your loved ones with greetings
Happy Birthday! We hope you like the present we got you: yet another awful way for your friends to insincerely spam you through social media on this, your special day.
Not content with already devaluing the phrase through automatic SMS prompts that let a friend post "Happy Birthday!" simply by sending a single-character reply, Facebook now wants you to record videos of yourself half-heartedly sending birthday wishes.
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