Facebook rolls out birthday recap video to make your big day memorable

Birthday recap videos weave best wall posts you get for your birthday into a cute 45-second video

Honestly speaking, most of us remember birthdays of our friends and family because of Facebook as it sends notification every time it is one of your friends birthday.

With its global base of monthly active users growing to 1.7 billion, the social media platform is where people celebrate birthdays online. Facebook says its users post more than 100 million birthday messages each day.

Now it’s taking online birthday celebrations one step further. Facebook has rolled out birthday recap videos that weave the best wall posts you got for your birthday into a cute little video clip provided you have list your birthday in you profile and receive at least three wall posts or tags in posts on your birthday. The 45-second video includes photos and text comments and, it appears in your News Feed on the following day of your birthday.



The video opens with a colourful that opens up to reveal the posts. You can also edit the video and replace/remove the photos or posts in it before sharing it your friends.

Earlier this year Facebook had launched Birthday Cam feature, which allows people to send videos to wish their loved ones on their big day instead of generic text posts.


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