As any modern human knows, your birthday is worth nothing unless people on the internet acknowledge it.
Sure, you took the day off work to sit alone with your thoughts and daytime telly, but if enough people you used to know write, ‘HB babe xoxo,’ on your Facebook wall the world need never truly know how desperately alone you are.
Because friends on the World Wide Web > than irl friends.
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