With every passing day, the number of friends on our social graphs increases, and our daily “birthday” list increases proportionally as well. Unfortunately, this means that we may sometimes just shoot out the standard “Happy Birthday” message on someone’s wall when we mean to show them a bit a more attention. I came up with a few interesting ways to better wish someone a happy birthday on Facebook.
Post A Photo on Their Wall
If you’re wishing happy birthday to someone you know well, find a photo of the two of you having a good time and post it to their wall along with the “happy birthday” greeting. It will remind them of some good times and bring a smile to their face. I’ve found that posting interesting photos also triggers some reminiscing from other friends, and a little birthday thread about the birthday boy/girl will likely ensue.
Make them an Animoto Video
Animoto has long been one of my favorite Facebook applications. All you have to do is choose a theme, an assortment of pictures and some music, and Animoto will mix them together and generate a music video with professional special effects. These really go a long way to showing someone you care, and don’t really take a lot of time. Give it a shot!
Surprise Birthday Fan Page
If you’re looking to be a bit creative, make them a surprise birthday fan page! Make a private fan page and invite all of the special person’s friends to join. Maybe name it “Happy Birthday” or “Person is the Best!”. Once you’re done with that, unveil it on their birthday and ssurprise them! This works nice for those big years for people who aren’t in town or available to come to the party. Maybe ask all the people who join the fan page to leave a little message about a fun story between them and the birthday person.
Send Some Virtual Goods
If your birthday buddy plays social games, you’ve got a world of virtual good options to help them out. If they play Farmville, you can buy them enough credits to get that barn they’ve always wanted. If they’re a Hotel City fan, give them a currency boost to help them add five floors to their hotel. Social gaming is all about gifting, and all you’ve gotta do is scan their wall to find out which game they play the most, hop in, and buy them some currency! If you’re short on cash yourself, you can even do some offers to gain the currency to send over!
Buy A Facebook Gift
OK, OK, this isn’t exactly the most unique Facebook birthday sentiment around, but the truth is that the Facebook store has a really wide diversity of cards, icons and more, and if you are willing to pay a few Facebook credits you can get them something that’s right up their alley. For instance, if you have a music lover, the American Greeting section of the Facebook Gift store has a plethora of music based e-cards with real, licensed music and fun accompanying slide shows. Check it out!
Use a Third Party Gift Application
There are many great gift applications that allow you to send gifts for free. Some have extremely high quality and will really bring a smile to the person’s face. A personal favorite of mine is “Tooniez”, which consists of short animation videos with funny characters. Try it out and send one over.
Send a Private Message
There’s no doubt that in today’s Facebook world, it’s tough to read every single Happy Birthday note on your wall (although I’m sure many of us do). If the person has a special meaning, at least shoot them a private message to say Happy Birthday and a few words. Sometimes the public happy birthday can’t really express how you feel about someone, because it’s too public.
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I would add, "take out an ad"! If you know all about your friend's interests, job title, company, etc you can nanotarget him/her with a Facebook ad wishing him/her Happy Birthday all day long!
Comment by Dave Kerpen — March 29, 2010 @ 5:35 am
Or you could throw them a virtual birthday party with my "virtual party" app. I'm sorry but this is too relevant for me not to make a shameless plug here. I have deliberately not included a link though – in the hope that that buys me back some karma.
Comment by Louis — March 29, 2010 @ 8:15 am
I have found that wishing someone Happy Birthday is one of the best way to connect with friends/family/potential clients. It's not about business. It's not about tacky apps. It's someone's special day.
I tell my clients that they should make this part of their daily maintenance on FB.
I post this message along with the Birthday Song by Paul McCartney and it helps me to stand out in the sea of wishes.
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? Happy birthday to you! ?
? Happy birthday to you! ?
? Happy birthday, dear Mar-i-oooo ?
? Happy birthday to youuuuuu! ?
?
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs
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After you've posted the message to their Wall, simple click on the SHARE A LINK button and paste the video link into it.
Once the video pops up, clean up the title and delete the description area so it looks better.
Comment by Mia Chambers — March 29, 2010 @ 8:18 am
Darn it. That didn't quite work.
Check out this screen shot for an example:
http://acumenva.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Bi...
Comment by Mia Chambers — March 29, 2010 @ 8:27 am
I think that the more personal you can get the better, your brithday is about getting personal with the people arround you, I sometimes send a regular email or a FB email along with what I do in their wall, this makes a lot of difference for everyone
Comment by Rodolfo Salazar — March 29, 2010 @ 10:00 am
thnx for ur suggestions…. Hope this would work to wish my very special friends "happy birthday" in a unique way…
thanks a lot…..
Comment by Pruthvi — March 30, 2010 @ 2:30 am
Mia
Great vid.
How do you get those musical notes to show up?
And the cute heart?
Thanks!
Comment by Jen — March 30, 2010 @ 9:45 am
Another innovative option is:
http://apps.facebook.com/dashgift/
You can send Real gifts to your friends on facebook and they can redeem them in-store. I got a gift for my birthday and it made me so happy.
Comment by Sara — March 30, 2010 @ 10:47 am
I was finding it difficult to find decent Birthday Songs to send people so I wrote and recorded this one myself!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11356701532...
Also found on http://www.facebook.com/dccardwell
Comment by Facebook User — April 1, 2010 @ 5:19 pm
Has anyone tried the "create a fan page" option outlined in this post? If so, how did you do it? FB gives options for creating pages for celebrities, etc — can you get away with doing this for your birthday boy/girl? Or is a community page the way to go? Any specific advice would be appreciated!
Comment by Mike P — April 15, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
Does anyone know how can we check our Page's fans birthday?
Comment by Yokfah — August 9, 2010 @ 2:44 am
you could send a real personalized birthday card using pamitcards.ca for those special friends
Comment by Jennifer — November 6, 2010 @ 1:46 am
Thanks for the info! You can also post my original Happy Birthday (remix) song link http://www.musicxray.com/xrays/35769 and tell them you dedicate this song to them!
Thanks, Craymo
Comment by Craymo — January 6, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
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How do you get the Happy Birthday wish in musical notes…????
Comment by Patty W — March 23, 2011 @ 9:44 am
alt 13 and alt 14 will make musical notes
Comment by Kristine May Buxton — April 12, 2011 @ 10:50 am
Just copy and paste:
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Comment by Stephanie — April 14, 2011 @ 9:49 am
Just copy and paste:
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Comment by Tom — May 28, 2011 @ 1:13 am
i will go will the Third Party Gift Application and plzZ .. Will u write more namez of app …?
Comment by baqar — June 20, 2011 @ 6:18 am
sorry but this is not working in Google chrome
Comment by baqar — June 20, 2011 @ 6:20 am
I made a facebook to send birthday gift and birthday greetings. It can send gift by schedule. check it out here:
http://apps.facebook.com/friendsbirthday/
Comment by georgezhangitg — June 27, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
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Hopin you have a great day my friend.
Comment by buddhasbabe — July 2, 2011 @ 8:05 am
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http://fiverr.com/users/djemotion/gigs/sing-happy...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Birthday-To-Y...
Comment by Rob — July 3, 2011 @ 3:33 pm
Have you seen this? http://fiverr.com/users/djemotion/gigs/sing-happy...
Yes thats me
Comment by Rob — July 3, 2011 @ 3:37 pm
The best way I've found is http://speaking-ecards.com
Comment by Rose — August 15, 2011 @ 10:46 am
Birthdays are good for you – the more you have the longer you live.
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Comment by delliott — September 28, 2011 @ 12:22 pm
hi Buddhasbabe i was wondering where do you guys find those kind of designs? or like birthday notes designs that some people put on Facebook? i like to know where you guys look them up on or what website do you find those designs so write an e-mail back to me thanks!
Kristina
Comment by Kristina — October 3, 2011 @ 12:23 am
dear
Comment by Pramod Choudhary Choudhary — November 4, 2011 @ 2:01 am
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Comment by Mohsin Saiyad — November 11, 2011 @ 2:32 am
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Comment by Rainforest — November 30, 2011 @ 2:40 am
Send birthday wishes with recipient's name on cake!
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Comment by Neo — December 5, 2011 @ 8:01 am
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Comment by Birthday Quotes — January 9, 2012 @ 11:36 pm
You can automatically send birthday wishes on Facebook using http://www.facesofware.com
Comment by Nathan — January 11, 2012 @ 7:35 am
great to know about this. A New free FB web app that lets you pre-schedule happy birthday wall posts called birthdayFB. It is a completely free app. Your posts will be automatically posted to your friends’ walls at a random time on the morning of their birthday without them ever knowing that it was pre-arranged.
Also your friend would not know that you used this birthdayFB app to post your messages unless you tell them. It can prove to be very useful for the facebook users.
Visit this site for more information: http://birthdayfb.com
Comment by Sean Morgan — February 3, 2012 @ 2:15 am
Happy Birthday to Facebook
Comment by Imran — February 4, 2012 @ 6:31 pm