How to Respond to Birthday Messages Without Overthinking It: A Modern Etiquette Guide
Your phone buzzes all day. A cousin sends a voice note, a former colleague leaves a one-line comment on Facebook, and the family group chat fills with balloon emojis. It is lovely, and then a quiet question follows: how am I supposed to answer all of this?
Birthday replies have become one of the small etiquette puzzles of digital life. The old rules assumed a stack of paper cards....