It all started with facebook birthdays. I never understood the obsession people had with these utterly meaningless birthday wishes from people you literally never talk to.

Twelve years ago, an acquaintance of mine changed his birthday four times that year, and at the end of the year made a public post calling out the people who had wished him a happy birthday more than once, and removed them from his friends list.

I deleted mine about a year later, for completely unrelated reasons, but it's about the only thing I remember from Facebook whatsoever. That lad was clever.