The birthday alienation attack - (Episode 129)

Birthdays used to be a moment of real connection – a card, a call, a gathering. Today, it’s a flood of shallow Facebook notifications, auto-generated LinkedIn greetings, and automated Slack shoutouts. In this episode of “The Alienation Attack,” we dive into how birthdays became just another engagement metric in the digital world. Are we celebrating people or feeding algorithms? From bots that wish happy birthday to privacy risks of exposing your birth date, join us as we explore how technology turned a human ritual into a tool of alienation.