A funny thing happened on the way to Facebook, 36 of 40

So, it came to a point yesterday that I was wondering how many people had wished me a happy birthday on Facebook. One of my favorite things about Facebook is that on my birthday a lot of people usually celebrate me, I am a big fan of me, so I like it when people realize how special I really am. Anyway, I decide to log onto Facebook via my app on my phone and lo and behold there were four people who had wished me a happy birthday, and all of them were family. It may be needless to say, but I was pretty disappointed, in other years there would be a bunch of people telling me happy birthday, and it's not like I checked really early in the day, it was around 4 o'clock and no friends had mentioned my birthday.

Another hour or so later I came upstairs to see if my app just wasn't uploading correctly, it does that a lot more than I would prefer. I decided to power on my laptop and check there, alas there were still only the four mentions. I felt a little depressed, and wondered why no one was wishing me happy birthday. I went to my timeline and checked and it turns out that I had my birthday hidden from the world. Mystery solved, but why did I do that?

At first I didn't remember, but then it came to me. Last year, if memory serves it was September or October my email got hacked. I started getting some weird emails and an email or two was sent from me to various friends. At that point I decided to jettison that email and start changing my various passwords and privacy settings across the board. Hence, when I changed my Facebook password and privacy settings my birthday disappeared from public consumption.

I thus made my birthday public again and the well wishers started pouring in. Which just goes to show you that people may just not have the information they need in order to praise you as opposed to just not caring about you at all.

Peace and Love,
Pastor K

p.s. It also goes to show you that you should make sure you change your passwords occasionally and make sure no more information is getting out into the world than you want.