How to Create a Birthday Card on Facebook

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: November 14, 2021

This wikiHow teaches you how to wish a friend a happy birthday on Facebook. While there is no official Facebook app for creating a traditional card, you can use a Google Chrome extension called Birthday Buddy to schedule birthday posts so that you don't miss a friend's birthday. You can also post your happy birthday wishes on your friends' pages directly.

Method 1

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Using Birthday Buddy on Google Chrome

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Open Google Chrome. It's a red, green, yellow, and blue sphere icon. You must do this on a computer since the mobile version of Chrome doesn't support extensions.
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Go to the Birthday Buddy extension page. This app allows you to create phrases to use for your friends' birthdays. Birthday Buddy then takes these phrases and posts them to friends' pages on their birthdays.

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Click ADD TO CHROME. This blue button is in the top-right side of the extension window.
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Click Add extension when prompted. It's in a pop-up window at the top of the page. Doing so will install the Birthday Buddy extension.
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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're already logged into Facebook.
- If you aren't already logged into Facebook, enter your email address (or phone number) and password in the top-right side of the page, then click Log In.
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Click Birthday Buddy. It's a tab in the column of options that's in the upper-left side of the page. Clicking it opens a pop-up window.
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Enter your account information. Fill out the following fields:
- First Name - Your first name.
- Last Name - Your last name.
- Email - Type in an email address that you want to use for your Birthday Buddy account.
- Password - Type in a password that you want to use for your Birthday Buddy account.
- Confirm Password - Re-enter your password.
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Click Submit. It's at the bottom of the Birthday Buddy window. Doing so creates your account and takes you to the message creation page.
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Create an automatic birthday message. On the left side of the Birthday Buddy window, click a text field, then type in your message. Make sure you click the Name button to insert a prompt for the person's name if you want to include their name in the birthday message.
- For example, you might type "Happy Birthday, [click Name]!" to create a message that says "Happy Birthday, [NAME]" in the Birthday Buddy window. This message will use the first name of the person whose birthday you're referencing.
- You can create up to three of these.
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Click Save. It's in the bottom-left side of the window. Your messages will now be assigned randomly to friends when their birthdays come up.

Method 2

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On Mobile

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Open Facebook. Tap the Facebook app icon, which resembles a white "f" on a dark-blue background. This will open the Facebook News Feed if you're logged in.
- If you aren't logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password, then tap Log In.
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Tap the search bar. It's at the top of the screen.
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Type in your friend's name. Doing so will prompt a drop-down list of matching names below the search bar.
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Tap your friend's name. It should be near the top of the search bar. This will take you to a list of profiles.
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Select your friend's profile. Tap the profile that belongs to your friend to open their profile page.
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Scroll down and tap the "Write Post" text box. It's below the row of options below their profile picture. Doing so opens a post window.
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Type in your happy birthday wish. Simply enter the phrase or message that you want your friend to see.
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Tap Post. It's in the top-right corner of the window.

Method 3

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On Desktop

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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're already logged in.
- If you aren't already logged into Facebook, enter your email address (or phone number) and password in the top-right side of the page, then click Log In.
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Review today's birthdays. Scroll down until you see a list of people with birthdays today on the right side of the page, then find a person to whom you want to wish a happy birthday.
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Select a friend. Click the name of a person whose birthday is today. A pop-up window will appear.
- If your friend's birthday is today but it isn't showing up here: click the search bar at the top of the screen, enter your friend's name, click their profile image, and click the text box near the top of their page.
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Type in a birthday message. Click the "Write on [Name]'s Timeline..." text box in the pop-up window, then type in the message that you want to post on their page.
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Click Post. It's a blue button in the bottom-right corner of the pop-up window. Doing so will post your birthday message to the friend's wall.

Community Q&A

Question

How can I make a birthday greeting private?

Sophie Walford

Community Answer

Private message the person through Facebook's Messenger app or directly on Facebook if you are on a computer.