Is it possible to disable Facebook Birthday notification? How to turn it on or off?
The fact that Facebook warns you of your friends’ birthdays is very practical, but since it also sends you notifications the thing has become somewhat annoying. After all, many of our friends on the social network are not so important people that I really need the cell phone to ring if it’s their birthday.
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How to turn off birthday notifications on Facebook?
How to turn on birthday notifications on Facebook?
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Is it possible to stop getting annoying Facebook Birthday Notifications? I have good news: Yes, it is possible and very easy. In Msntechblog I will tell you how to turn off and turn on Facebook birthday notifications.
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How to turn off birthday notifications on Facebook:
To stop receiving notifications for the birthdays of your Facebook contacts you will have to change some elements of your account settings.
To do this, you need to access the Facebook Settings dashboard by clicking on the inverted dark blue triangle that appears in the upper right corner of the screen.
A drop-down menu containing the “Settings” option will appear.
Facebook settings dashboard
The Settings page is the center from which you can completely customize your Facebook experience.
In the menu on the left, you will see the different categories that you can configure: General (you are there by default), Security, Privacy, Biography and tagging, Block, Notifications, Mobile, Followers, etc.
Click on “Notifications” to disable friends birthday notification.
Find birthday notification setting on Facebook
After clicking Notifications, in the middle of the screen you will see all the elements by which you can receive notifications and their controls to activate or deactivate them (besides the means by which you receive notifications).
In the “Notifications settings” section, find out “On Facebook” option.
You will see that in first place beside “All notifications, all sounds on“.
Click on the right where it says Edit.
Stop getting Facebook birthday notifications
The Birthday section will open so you can select whether or not you want to receive notifications.
By default, Facebook birthday notifications set to “ON”.
Click the triangle button that says “On“.
A small drop-down menu will open, where you must select “Off“.
The new settings will be saved automatically. You will no longer receive notifications for your contacts’ birthdays!
Instructions to turn on birthday notifications on Facebook
Follow above all steps accordingly on turn off birthday notifications on Facebook except the last one.
The Birthday section will open so you can select whether or not you want to receive notifications.
Click the triangle button that says “Off“.
A small drop-down menu will open, where you must select “On“.
The new settings will be saved automatically.
That’s all! Now you will receive notifications for your friends birthdays!
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WHY is there NO option to turn off the sending of notifications of ones own birthdays to others, on Facebook . . . ? Not everyone celebrates birthdays, nor wants others reminded to send them birthday greetings. I’ve looked for a way -several times- to stop such notifications being sent to my friends, to no avail.
You need to change birthday privacy to “Only Me” to deactivate sending your birthday wish notifications to your friends.