Am I a bad person because I don’t wish people Happy Birthday online anymore?

Asking for a friend.

Because I do appreciate the flood of messages I get on Facebook when my own birthday rolls around, but at some point in the last few years I just… stopped doing the same for others. Partly because it’s a lot to keep track of, not just whose birthday it is but also do I take the time to craft a more specific message than just the generic “many happy returns of the day”?

I’ll be honest, the random people giving me shit about that specific turn of phrase (because I always...