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I saw this mentioned on a blog long ago (I'd link it, but the blog has since died. Meh) and wanted to try this myself.
Tuesday was my birthday. Yay! Happy Birthday to me!
Wait, so was Wednesday. Yay! Happy Birthday to me!
Um, ok... so is today. ...Yay! Happy Bir--
But my real birthday is in January.
This fun social experiment took 3 days before people finally got the joke. But during those 3 days, I got some fun statistics....
Day 1 - 20 people were fooled, including 2 family members and 1 guy who has known me since I was 6
Day 2 - 10 people still wished me a happy birthday, including 3 people who did it less than 24 hours ago.
Day 3 - The jig was up, people had figured it out. Oh well! You HAVE to forgive me! It's my birthday!!!
I'd like to say that my FB friends are smarter than most. They got the joke pretty quickly, and a handful of people knew something was up on day 1.
But still, it was a fun thing to try. Too bad I didn't get any presents out of it...
Well, happy birthday any damn way... In case I miss the real deal.
ReplyDeleteHaha that is priceless! Happy 3 day long Birthday! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy belated, if it really was in January, but you are kinda shady so it's probably in July.. sneaky boy!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday... your gift is in the mail.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like genius is what it is. I don't even have that many people added on facebook and I think it'd go extremely well
ReplyDeleteHaha, that's funny. I'd be one of those people that got fooled on day one, because I don't remember birthdays well. And it's not like I have many to remember, so there's no excuse. Whatever.
ReplyDeleteLOL Happy Birthday forever to your sir!
ReplyDeleteYou do know the story about the boy who cried "wolf"?
ReplyDelete@Autumn: Yeah, I know. But it seemed like a fun experiment to try. Especially since my birthday was a month and a half ago... recent enough where you think people would remember...
ReplyDeleteHuh...my actual birthday was yesterday. I should try this out.
ReplyDeleteHahaha... I'll have to try that sometime on Farcebook. Every day is my birthday. Sure, I won't receive any gifts but I might get some well wishing.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Happy Belated Birthday to ya, man! For you, I've done something extra special. Enclosed in vacuum sealed container is a gift that is hot n' steamy, overall a dark brown in color, and has bits of yellow and green vegetables embedded within it. Can you guess what this treasured present might be?
Why yes, it is a turd. It should arrive by Federal Express soon, no later than Sunday. Happy Birthday! And please, take good care of yourself and enjoy the weekend, for goodness sakes.
It's fucking ridiculous and just shows how shallow people are! My gf did it a while ago and made a random day her bday and then when hers came noone gave a fuck lol.
ReplyDeletelool i jst automatically write HBD on my fb friend's wall's once fb tells me it's their bday. i dnt even question it,lol
ReplyDeleteOh man that is so mean XD
ReplyDeletehmm a 3 day long celebration sounds nice
ReplyDeleteHappy St. Patrick's day!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this... I want to troll. NOW.
ReplyDeleteI would like to think that everyday is my birthday! :)
ReplyDeletesounds like fun, if only people got you presents
ReplyDeleteROFL you fooled two family members.. that is just golden dude.
ReplyDeleteany excuse to eat cake
ReplyDeletehahahah what a great idea. when i had facebook, i never said "happy birthday!!" to people when i got a notification, but noticed that they came out of the woodwork to say it to me. i figure if i dont know your birthday and an alternate way to get in touch with you, its not gonna matter if i give you birthday wishes or not. but i wish i'd thought to fuck with people like that while i had an account there.
ReplyDeletethats an awesome idea, i gotta try it out sometime!
ReplyDeleteCant beat trolling on facebook
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny. I always know when people are just going by the Facebook birthday notifications. There are about 25-30 people who know my birthday by heart - the other 250 are just going around saying happy birthday to everybody.
ReplyDeleteHmm, my birthday is next week, I'm going to keep doing this everyday from my birthday and see how far I can get.
ReplyDeletelol i dont think it would work. most of my friends there know my birthday :D
ReplyDeletehappy birthday! hope you have a good one
ReplyDeleteThat was funny. It also points out how so-called friends really dont know you as much as they pretend to.
ReplyDeletemost birthday comments are reactions at best. they dont check to even see who it is sometime. they just want to make another wall post.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I don't think my 'friends' would catch on for at least 4 days.
ReplyDeleteBUT, did you get any gifts? That's the really important part!
ReplyDeleteHappy bday!! should try this joke when im bored :D
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