How to Check Birthdays on Facebook

Facebook is popular due to the convenient and effective options offered by it to keep in touch with your near and dear ones. Along with posting status, questions, links, photos and videos, a user can also do various activities to socialize with his friends in a virtual environment. Many users love to avail these features to bond more closely with their loved ones. The social network offers a set of efficient options to track the past as well as upcoming birthdays of the people included in his Facebook friends list. So when you are busy with your professional goals and activities, you can never miss out a dear friend’s birthday and post a birthday wish on his wall.

Checking Past Birthdays of Your Entire List of Friends

Log in to Facebook using your email address and password. Now you will be redirected to your homepage.
Click on the Events icon appearing at the left hand side of the page. Now you can see three options like Friend’s events, Birthdays, and Past Events. Click on the link labeled as Birthdays.
You will be redirected to the Birthdays page. The birthdays will be displayed arranged in a chronological order. There will be birthdays falling in the same month as well as part and future months.
You can scroll through the multiple pages to see the birthday of each person included in your Facebook friends list.

Checking Approaching Birthdays of Friends

If you have opted for Facebook email alerts, you will receive weekly notifications informing you about the upcoming birthdays of your friend during the next week. At the beginning of each week, you can see such emails appearing in your email with a list of upcoming birthdays of your friends. You can see the birthdays without even logging in to the social networking websites. However, you will be required to log in to Facebook to wish your friends by posting messages on their walls.
A user can check out for the upcoming birthdays of his friends without enabling the email notification feature. Log in Facebook using your email address and password. Now you will be redirected to your homepage.
At the top right corner of the page, you can see the Upcoming events icon. If the birthdays fall on the same day, you can see a message mentioning the name of the friend and his birthday.
Click on the See All link appearing next to the icon. Now you will be taken to the Events page. There you can see a list of friends along with their approaching birthdays.
You can wish them by visiting their wall or even plan some event to make the upcoming birthday enjoyable.