And once again, I must reiterate.
People who have a birthday would like to celebrate that with their friends. They consider people on the forums their friends, and so they feel the need/want to share it with other people. They have absolutely no intention of contributing anything to the forum, it's entirely self-gain, but for them personally it means a lot, and some people here like going around congratulating others on their birthdays.
This is one of the earlier points I discussed but w/e, I guess I must reiterate.
How does one expect to 'celebrate' their birthday by posting 'it's my birthday' on the forum? What does it possibly do for them? How do you celebrate with strangers (that you consider your friends) across a textual medium that allows no emotional or physical connection? I might feel/need to share the fact that my ass itches to my internet stranger friends. And I think we agree that in doing so I do not contribute anything and it's entirely self gain. Nobody is debating why people share their birthday threads online, I couldn't care less what reason you have to share personal information to random people on the internet that have no use for it. Fact of the matter is, the threads are useless and stupid.
The threads are just as necessary and useful as every other thread in Off Topic, aka not useful. The difference is that instead of being about something that could affect multiple people, it's specifically focusing on one member.
I really disagree. While the content in Blockland's off-topic is usually old and recycled compared to other internet forums, all internet forums, including this one, are usually great mediums for a diverse range of entertainment, social, political outlets. Even personal outlets. Sometimes the blogland topics here are entertaining and relate-able (and note that by this logic, I don't have a problem with all birthday threads, only the ones that offer no content).
I firmly believe that every topic should have some level of topical content. Most other public internet forums ban people for making threads about their birthdays, because half of them are practically indiscriminate from other stuff threads that offer virtual 0 conversation point.
(In case you didn't notice, this was a JOKE. Please learn what a joke is before trying to use every single one of my loving joke posts as a serious argument.)
I know what a joke is, they don't usually turn out very well when tagged onto the end of a serious discussion for no reason. Although I do appear to lack the magical ability to determine people's emotional understatements (i.e. anger)
