bacon to facebook – bring back the birthday!

I’m a big fan of the current facebook user experience online.

I’m actually an even bigger fan of their latest iphone app that allows better access to groups and pages and improves the overall user experience.  Adding the ability to sync with my contact list to add pictures and links to my iphone contact list is the best example of an App integrating with a device yet.

It’s just missing one key feature – the birthday push

The last few iterations of the facebook platform have moved birthday notices below the fold of your screen – which means I almost never see who is celebrating a birthday anymore. I was having a wobbly pop the other night with my good friend Jason who suggested that having your calendar also sync with facebook events you’ve already opt-ed in for would be brilliant.

I couldn’t agree more. Let’s go one step further and bring the birthday back as either a push message from facebook on my iphone, or as an iphone event reminder as synced by the facebook app.

I’m terrible with remembering birthdays – so having a push message on my iphone would help me be better a friend