Facebook added a small feature this afternoon which sends birthday notifications to users via email. This is an extremely useful feature and I’m guessing many people will leave this on. The only problem with this service is that you aren’t provided with your friend’s e-mail address. Instead you simply receive a notification.
There are currently a number of other applications on Facebook for birthday reminders, as well as those that help you send friends gifts on birthdays as Harry Huai Wang writes. This will definitely hurt applications like Birthday Alert as it practically duplicates that application’s functionality.
Developing an application based on a single feature on Facebook is always an extremely risky activity. Unfortunately the developers of Birthday Alert will find that out the hard way. Now you won’t forget birthdays anymore as long as you are connected to your friends on Facebook! In order to manage the birthday alert notifications you can head over to the email notifications page in your account settings.
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I think the fact that you have to opt IN for this means it won't have as much impact on those applications as it would were all users automatically opted-in… it's good to see Facebook have learnt some lessons on that front
Comment by James — November 15, 2008 @ 8:38 am
[...] This is less of a hack and more of a good activity to get in the habit of. Whether or not you are using Facebook to do this, you should be wishing everybody you know a happy birthday. Facebook has done most of the work for you, by tracking all of your contacts’ birthdays, they even recently added birthday email notifications. [...]
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How can I add a birthday to my birthday album?
Why not all contacts were automatically included?
Why new contacts are not automatically added?
Tks!
Comment by Viviane Hazan — December 24, 2009 @ 6:07 am
I used to always get birthday notifications but recently they have stopped. I checked my settings, and the birthday notification setting is activated, so what is happening? That is one of my favorite features of FB and I miss it very much!
Comment by Pat Schaufele — February 1, 2010 @ 11:11 pm
I am not getting birethday notifications anymore my settings are correct so is my email. Please assist me in correcting this issue.
Thanks.
Comment by Raymond Bol — February 22, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
i want to include the birthadays of all my friends and make a data or album for them so that i cannot forget to greet them.
Comment by jana — March 3, 2010 @ 8:42 pm
This birthday option does not appear on my email notifications page any longer. Please help me get it back!
Comment by Mary — August 8, 2010 @ 3:03 am
Is there a way to pull up from my friends list all birthday's in August??
Comment by Jena Chester — August 20, 2010 @ 11:30 am
how do i send a birthday alert to all of his or her face book friends?
please keep my name "anonymous"
Comment by cgs — September 1, 2010 @ 12:21 pm