Of all social media sites, Facebook seems to be the one with the most exposure, as regards users’ information, by default.
Thankfully, privacy options to limit this exposure is provisioned. You have to access your account privacy settings and carry out some tweaks here and there to decide which information other users have access to.
One such information users may want to keep from others could be their birthday. Granted, it is nice, to say the least, to get birthday wishes from friends and loved ones on your birthday.
In the same way, it would be rude not to reply to all those well wishes. It gets tricky if those good wishes were sent by, say, a hundred friends via private chat, and you’d have to reply to them.
To avoid this situation, one may prevent their friends from getting notifications for their birthday.
Close friends will always remember your birthday and send you well wishes. The average person has, say, 20 close friends at most, and replying to 20 well wishes shouldn’t be a problem for most people.
How to Prevent Facebook from Notifying Your Friends of Your Birthday
If you wish to go ahead and prevent all your friends from getting notifications on your birthday, follow the steps presented below.
On Facebook App
- On your Facebook app, tap on the avatar icon at the top(Android) or bottom(iOS) to access your profile.
- Scroll down and tap “Edit profile“.
- Scroll down to the “Basic Info” section and tap “edit“.
- Tap on the drop-down arrow beside “Birthday” and set it to “Only Me“.
- Set the “Birthyear” option to “Only Me” as well.
On Facebook Website
- Once logged onto Facebook via the Facebook website, visit your Timeline and click “About“.
- Select “Contact and Basic Info” in the left pane.
- Choose the “Only Me” option for “Birthday” and “Birth Year“.
Doing this will remove your birth information from your profile and ensure none of your friends gets notifications on your birthday or about your birthday.