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Facebook has long been one of the most reliable ways to find out the birthdays of our friends and family (except of those who hide it). Despite this, the company wants to give it even more importance. Many people avoid posting their birthday on the timeline and the new feature wants to fix this. Now Facebook Stories will be in charge of giving importance to anniversaries.
Facebook has added new birthday templates to Stories as we can see in the WSJ.More than 500 million people are using Stories every month, although it seems hard to believe when you enter Facebook and see that there are only a handful of new posts among thousands of contacts. Facebook ensures that Stories are at a good moment and that their level of interaction is increasing.
How to use the new birthday cards in Facebook Stories?
When Birthday Stories are available and a friend of yours has a birthday, you'll see a tab in the stories tray inviting you to leave a greeting. You can make an image or a small video and personalize it with your best wishes. It is also possible to use the music sticker to add a nice song or use one of the digital greeting cards that Facebook has created for the occasion.
Don't expect all the contacts you have on Facebook to appear in Stories with this option. Facebook will work with advanced algorithms and will identify only those close friends who show their birthday so you can use this feature only with certain people. You can also manually add certain friends to these new, more select Stories. We will see how this function behaves and if Facebook is able to determine who our closest friends are.
We know that Facebook Stories have caught on in some parts of the planet but in many others we are still wondering why use these Stories when we have the Instagram onesPerhaps this new option is a good starting point to use and avoid filling out someone's profile every time they have a birthday. The new Stories for birthdays have been launched today, let us know if they have reached you.
