It's my birthday and I can make you support a cause if I want to
Posted: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 by Kathryn McConnachie in Labels: causes, desktop activism, facebook, facebook applications, guilt, slacktivism
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The Causes application on Facebook knows that it’s my birthday tomorrow. And for the last few weeks it hasn’t stopped asking me to use my birthday to "change the world”.
The application has been contacting me via Facebook and over email in an attempt to remind me that on my birthday my Facebook profile page will be getting a lot me attention than usual – that is of course assuming that all of my “friends” decide to write on my wall or send me a virtual gift.