Your phone buzzes at 7:02 a.m. A college roommate, an aunt, a former coworker, and a dozen Facebook acquaintances have all remembered your birthday. By lunchtime the notifications have piled up, and a quiet question appears: how do I respond to all of this without sounding cold, copy-pasted, or exhausted?
Birthday wishes now arrive through more channels than ever, and the unwritten rules for...
