i found it meaningless

what? my birthday, that is.

i don't have anything against people who yearn for presents on their birthdays.
go on. beg or hint or whatever for it. happy birthday.
i won't expect any. (but they are always welcomed though. :P)

i blame that on my big, balloon of ego. (like most balloons, it is fragile and like most kids, i would be upset if mine were to burst.)

i hate pretentious people (which i suspect i could be one) who would suddenly come to you and yell, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!", and then after a week of doing that to about dozens of others, they would go, "*sigh* so many birthdays la this month so cumbersome to greet em all blablablabla-".
screw you.
birthdays were once a little piece of info that you could only get them by really knowing the person aka. stalking/biography stealing/private investigator.
now, i can always go to anyone facebook/any other internet social network site, view info and bam, surprise party is coming...
that's not the real issue actually.
it's the birthday notifier.
it eliminates the part where you have to remember them through out the relationships.
anybody could argue, "it's the same as writing birthdays in your diary".
no.
most of the time, it would be something like this:
"ok. let's see what other stupid rants these fuckers have for their sta- oh~. it's that guy's birthday! omg-happy-birthday-dude!"
absentmindedly.
a hundred other doing that and the birthday boy/girl would goes:
"oh-so-many bday greets~~~. ayam so popular."
or
"thanks you guys!"

they wouldn't even realize about that dude birthday when adding him as a friend.
all is done out of pretentious courtesy.
what is so 'friendly' about that?

or maybe it's just plain bothersome to thank everyone back.
-_-

it's a good example of,
"Everybody is special. Just like everybody else."
spesial pale hotak ko.