A Cunning Idea

[bugshaw]

It occurs to me that things would be much more efficient if people with birthdays made a seed post in their own journal, to which their friends could append their good wishes, instead of the scattershot approach that appears the norm with people posting on their own journals and commenting in other people's.

I think I ought to feel that this would be too egotistical compared with the "Oh! My birthday, you remembered, now I feel special!" (but that might be more egotistical...)

Anyway - it was my birthday! I had a nice one, thank you, but the day before was nicer (nephew visit and trip to RailWorld) and the day after probably will be as well as I'm off to the Red Wine Evening.

Comments

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, Bridget! ;¬)

[numbat.livejournal.com]

It's certainly a point worth pondering. The birthday greetings yesterday did seem like a very erratic Mexican wave.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Glad you had fun!

Meanwhile, we had a good three days with D's father and D's father's new girlfriend* - long walks, and fine dining (which nicely offset one another!), with a great haul of well-chosen gardening gifts for me :-)

* Two years since D's Mum died suddenly, D's father seems to have weathered the storm and found a reason to carry on living...

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

But Bug, the point of birthday greetings is not their efficiency. Spread the joy!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

No, put all the joy in the birthday person's journal! Don't hope that they'll find all the odd greetings in other people's journals, or as comments to unrelated entries. If I'd had a busy couple of days at work and not checked LJ, I'd not have seen them.

It's like the old days when people used to send cards or even e-mails - they were sent to the recipient. The birthday person didn't have to go round visiting or phoning their friend or checking their friends' web logs to check if they were being wished a happy birthday.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

But isn't it kind of fun to discover birthday greetings as you drift through other people's journals?

Anyway, here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/andrewducker/391677.html) is surely the ultra in birthday-greeting-efficiency.

[robthefish.livejournal.com]

I have just drifted through bugshaw's LJ...
Happy Birthday Bug!

[wandra.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I had a birthday this week too and I'm still hunting up the greetings I've been told are there so I can reply to them. But your suggestion is probably far too orderly for most people :-)

Happy Birthday!