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November 05, 2007

Jeff Pulver's "Five Things to Do on Facebook to Brighten Up Someone's Day."

Here are five things you can do on Facebook to help brighten up someone's day. Maybe even your own.

- Login to facebook.

- 1. Wish a friend, "Happy Birthday."

Go ahead and check to see if one of your friends is celebrating their birthday today. If so, wish that person a Happy Birthday. You will help make their day. If appropriate, repeat for each friend celebrating their birthday today.
(Once you have a few hundred friends you will notice that everyday is someone's birthday.)

- 2. Send a friend a video message.

Best if it is totally unexpected. Nothing fancy. Just use a built-in video camera of your laptop. And if you don't have a webcam, go out and pick one up. This is one of the best investments you can make to enhance your experience with social media. Turns out Asynchronous video on Facebook is video messaging the way it was supposed to be. You will be amazed to the way you can connect with someone using video.

- 3. Send a friend Voicemail.

If you are not feeling in a video state of mind, just leave someone a Facebook voice message. It is a lot easier to express feelings using voice rather than text. And again, you will be amazed to how positive some people react.

- 4. Send someone a Facebook text message.

Take a look at your friends list and send a message to someone who you haven't spoken to in awhile. Since you are "friends" you owe it to yourself to reach out and connect with these people every once in awhile. And once you open the conversation, you may be surprised to see where it leads.

- 5. Mention a friend's name in your Status Message.

Works pretty well, but not as effective as 1-4 above. And needs to be noticed to be effective.

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How would YOU use Facebook to brighten up someone's day? Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section below.

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Posted by: 升降机 at July 14, 2008 06:21 AM

It just WAS my birthday on Saturday (for those of you who missed it, belated greetings welcome...), and the best part was getting TWO video greetings from friends wishing me a happy day.

First time ever I received video greetings on my birthday... which was cool, but also felt way more personal than a greeting card or any offline wish... even a phone call.

Posted by: Ann Handley at November 6, 2007 05:30 PM

Jeff it made my day that you wished me (someone you only know through Twitter and Facebook) a happy birthday. My mom used to keep an index file box with everybody's birthday sorted by month. Once a month she'd buy birthday cards for the month and put the birth date where the stamp would go. Birthdays are too often missed opportunities to let people know we do care.

Posted by: Brian at November 6, 2007 07:59 AM

Interestingly, your post reminded me to check in on my Facebook friends celebrating birthdays today. I haven't been keeping up. Bad me! Bad me! Facebook makes it easy and I *still* don't do it. Dammit. : )

Posted by: Chris Brogan... at November 5, 2007 03:08 PM

I'm a fan of the gifts. I buy them in bulk so they come out to 50 cents per. (though I can imagine that with as many friends as you have, Jeff, that it might be a more financially draining solution.)

I'm also a fan of the actions from the app Superpoke that do things like "Cheer" "party with" and so forth, as day brighteners. Superpoke is about where my "crazyness" tolerance of applications tops out. I don't want vampires/werewolves, but Superpoke is fun and openended enough that I can make it my own, and I don't feel like I'm playing someone else's game when I use it.

Come to think of it, that's probably a good articulation of the metric for when I decide to accept/reject Facebook apps. "Can I make this my own, or am I just playing someone else's game?"

Posted by: David Kowarsky at November 5, 2007 12:26 PM

Jon,

Great points. I'm all for both the analog and the digital approach. I find that with Facebook, I am wishing Happy Birthday to people I otherwise wouldn't only because I would not know it was their birthday.

"Reach out and Touch Someone" should be the slogan we use when talking about Social Media. I think the words say it all.

Posted by: Jeff Pulver at November 5, 2007 11:52 AM

This entire conversation is a great example of the analog-to-digital shift. We used to have to buy a nice card, send flowers, pick up the phone or even stop by in person to wish a person well.

While digital interactions are certainly easier and often welcome, is a virtual hug less meaningful than an analog one because it is easier, because it is virtual?

Posted by: jon burg at November 5, 2007 11:38 AM

Ah, yes, the Poke. I'm fine getting poked and re-poking but for the people not familiar with the Jeff Pulver Poke-me culture, this isn't something that made my top five.

Posted by: Jeff Pulver at November 5, 2007 11:14 AM

Good idea. Just wrote on the wall of a friend in the UK I haven't talked to in ages.

Posted by: Jonny Goldstein at November 5, 2007 11:09 AM

oh me oh my - jeff pulver how could you forget to list poking and what it means to you - and we all and accept you and your poking addiction disease and that you are a recovering poke/poker player too - ge-oh

Posted by: geo at November 5, 2007 11:01 AM

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