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Facebook Will Now Wrap You a Birthday Video

Facebook has a birthday gift for its 1.71 billion users, but it will come one day late.
Performer Martinez wipes away tears as she is presented with birthday cake during a break of the performance of "Rusalka" at the Lyric Opera in Chicago
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Birthdays on Facebook are usually the one day out of the year when exes, friends from high school and that person you met at a party last year come out of the woodwork to share their well wishes on your wall.

Facebook is now offering another way to celebrate all of those birthday cheers with a personalized birthday video, which is being rolled out worldwide this week, a company representative told NBC News.

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Here's how it works: The day after your birthday, Facebook will show you a video in your News Feed of the top birthday posts and photos, creating another way to celebrate — or bemoan getting another year older.

You can then share the video with friends, just a few people, or keep it to yourself

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