This birthday app lets you create a card and send it to your friends on their special day. I love the little application as it lets one really add some personality to it. Some... and a picture(s). It even has quotes that you can use if I can't think of my own nice, easy, pithy comment.
But at least I'm thinking of you right?
True, for that couple of minutes, I am concentrating on you alone. In my busy time a couple of minutes is pretty good. I wonder how you are and hope you have a great birthday and really consider the moment you see that I have wished you a happy birthday as an acknowlegement of making a decent attempt to stay in touch.
It's Dimitry Martin's fault though. One day he was on the Daily Show talking about Myspace at the time and said to an incredulous Jon Stewart, think I can't wish the 500 friends who have a birthday today a happy birthday? Click, I just did (sic).
SO this app has an option of successively clicking a bunch of people on ONE go around. At first, I thought, but is that not cheating? I'd just rather make the card. I've got a lot of pictures and I can think of SOMETHING to say and be sincere.
Those who know me know I am juggling plates with different projects at all times. As a kid with a crappy GPA in High School, I read somewhere in "how to get into college with a crappy GPA" that activities were the key to getting in. I didn't know I would be starting a life-long multi tasking existence back then, but after I got into all of these cool activities in school, things just progressed from there.
(abridged)...so now I am involved with probably the same amount of projects, but they are all so much heavier and more meaningful. I am devoted to these tasks as they are my passions...and they involve my very solvency as well.
Yeah, double indemnity right there. It's called going for broke. While I haven't bet the house, I am still heavily investing in my career. This isn't a bad thing. Generative artists are the new entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs bet the farm and that's how it is. I love being an entrepreneur, but I hate the thought of buying a restaurant franchise, or the janitorial service or whatever. That to me is choosing to steal my OWN soul.
Sure, as an operatic tenor, I'd love to be gallivanting all over the world singing Puccini and Verdi and Mozart, not having a care except that my tone, action and diction are clear. It'd make things a lot simpler for everyone.
But I am truly interested in moving the operatic art form forward, no... stretching it forward. Seriously, Opera is the best thing for a boy like me. It contains every element of art in the creation of each piece. This includes business and finance too, as these discliplines require an eye for creating something from an idea (wealth for example, or a budget sheet...you ever stared at a blank excel spreadsheet and wondered what the hell have you gotten into?).
The point is, I got situationally greedy.
This birthday card application lets me click on a bunch of people and I said to myself, 'I can wish everybody this month a happy birthday and then go to bed'... I got greedy and kept clicking, all the way through November.
I am really sorry.
Upon further consideration and some six hours of sleep, I would say birthday card spam is NOT the way to go. It takes the consideration of an individual, a friend down to seconds rather than minutes. Sure it's a time saver! But what Facebook is about, the social networking thing, can be taken to the extreme. In some cases, it's necessity. For those with thousands of friends here and on Twitter and on and on, just FINDING the darn application is a time boiler, then the sometimes tens of people a day that have birthdays. You Octoberians...man alive!
I don't know HOW in the world I can keep up with you all, my friends, and make it as quality as I want. If I send one person a card, I feel bad about not sending another person a car. 'But that's the way it is sometimes', you say. Yeah! I know. But I don't have to like it.
Here's the deal.
If you are on Facebook and Myspace and see the little birthday application and think, hey, I'll just make a card for everyone, think again. Just go to their wall and wish them a happy birthday if you can't make a card, or even an unsolicited note sometime saying hi. ...This is no hard and fast rule, but just give it a little thought before you hit publish.
Take care and Happy Birthday!
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