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I don’t think that necessary. I know some people who will thank every single person who posts a “Happy Birthday” or “Congrats” on their wall and frankly, it gets to be pretty annoying when your friends with a lot of the same people. As long as you’ve acknowledged that these people did congratulate you by posting a generic “thanks to everyone” on your wall, I think your good.
When I get the gajillion happy birthdays on facebook, I try to thank everyone in a comment, and make my status a blanket thank you. I wouldn't worry about it looking impersonal because you're responding to them all at once, I don't think anyone expects facebook to be that personal anyways. :)
Also, congrats on the engagement!
I wondered the same thing! I always appreciate it when people I've congratulated take the time to thank me, so I figured it would be nice to write them each back on their walls. It's more time consuming, but more personal. :)
PS - For birthdays, I just do a blanket thank you in my status, because I don't expect anyone to personally thank me for wishing them happy birthday either. But engagements or marriages are more special in my opinion. Birthdays happen every year, but (hopefully!) a person only gets engaged or married once in their lifetime!
I figure if they take the time to post on my wall, then I'll take the time to send a quick thank you reply. :)
If I can, I do try to comment with a "Thank you". If not, I try to do a status update that says thank you to everyone and something along the lines of not being able to reply to everyone because of so much love that was shown, but letting them know that I appreciated it.
I don't think it's necessary to thank everyone individually.
A blankey post to say thanks is enough, unless they specifically asked you a question or made a more specific comment on something, then I would respond.
I love when people tell me thank you for a birthday wish or a congratulations, so I try to do the same. Yeah its time consuming, but its a nice thing to do.
I don't know about you but when I post news I get 100s if not 1000s of replies. I don't think its that serious. Perhaps my social graces are slipping with social networking. I do not reply. The face to face and written congrats are welcomed with gratitude.
Good point about writing another status just thanking everyone. I just added that to the poll. I'm tempted to do that but part of me agrees with Jayce that maybe since this is more special I ought to do more. Oh facebook... how you complicate things... lol.
@littlemissmango: I went with one blanket statement, and then updated it again the next day to be phrased a bit different (to thank those that had commented after). FI had about 17 notifications in 1 day...I had 250+. If you go the individual response route, you will be busy for a while!
-That's not to say that you can't message the super special people in your life to thank them. Then they get a personal response but not everyone sees it, so they're not all hoping you do the same for them.
Oh, I didn't vote because I would do the blanket status, the individual thank you in response to their wall post and for certain close friends, thank them on their wall. Usually, if I want to have a longer conversation with them I'll thank them on their wall.
I used to do just the blanket status thanking everyone but a friend of mine thanked each of her friend's wall post. I was very surprised and so I paid it forward and do the same thing now. I think people expect for you to just read it and do nothing but it gets a different reaction when you acknowlegde them. Plus, for me, it's a way to keep in touch with people who I haven't talk to in a while.
I'd just comment back Thank you! and push *like. How long can it take to write 2 words? Or better yet, just C&P into each individual congrats :)
I like the idea of personally thanking them in a comment back. I do it for birthdays too, because it's nice and I want my friends to know that I appreciate each and every one of them. I don't think it's formal though, so feelings aren't going to get hurt if you don't, but, I think it's just to acknowledge them individually. Especially considering they took the time to acknowledge you. :)
I also like personally responding to someone's well wishes or congratulations with a post on their wall because it seems more personal. And if it's a lot of the same post, like for my engagement, I also did a status. But either way, I don't think it's a big deal what you choose, just as long as you take the time to acknowledge that you appreciate their posting.
I just wrote a blanket Thank You. Maybe that is tacky, but I had about 500 "Congratulations" written to my wall. LOL.
@littlemissmango: I had hundreds of "Congrats" on my relationship change. I just "liked" each one and said thank you after every 5 or so. Then later I updated my status thanking everyone for the well wishes.
Whoah some of you guys have a LOT of friends!!! Haha! I definitely didn't have hundreds that posted. I just now wrote a thank you status and I figured since there weren't a crazy amount that posted on my wall that I'd go ahead and take time to write back/comment. Thought I'd combine the top two voted options, lol. :) Thanks for the input guys.
I comment on some, but sometimes I just "like" all the feedback! It's easier than commenting on everything.
I wrote a blanket "thank you" for the wedding congratulations on my page. Some of them were from relatives I haven't seen in 10+ years yet they're my "friends" on FB. I heard last month from my mom that her step-cousin was upset that I didn't respond to her congratulations message and was asking if I didn't get it. I've seen the woman maybe a few times in my life and five months later apparantly she's still upset over this! My culture is weird like that though...I still voted for blanket thank you in your poll.
I kind of wondered about the same thing - I ended up commenting on each of their posts (or after all of the posts on my changed relationship status). My fiance, however, made a blanket status. I think either one is perfectly acceptable. Honestly, I think the only FB etiquette no-no is to completely ignore the congratulations all together. Hope that helps!
@littlemissmango: my engagement came the day after my birthday - i was about halfway through thanking everyone individually for the happy birthdays (b/c there were about 40-50 of those on their own), and personally thanked probably the first 20 congrats for the engagement......but then i just gave up! it was overwhelming!!! i ended up putting huge "thank you thank you thank youuuuuu's" in my statuses, raving about how many awesome friends we have, for the next 3 days :) haha.
Blanket statement and, if you want to do more, hit the 'like' function on those comments.
Each person took the time to individually write on your wall, I think its fair that you take the time to respond to each one. They didnt do a blanket statement and say congrats to everyone who got engaged this year, so you should do more than respond with a blanket statement. Thats my 2 cents
And like a pp said, you dont even have to type it you just copy and paste, its doesnt take that long
I usually comment on each post since they took the time to post on my wall. It's time consuming but I do it cause they took the time to post on my wall.
And I do the comments because it always looks weird to just have a "Thank you" posted on my wall with no other comments around it, but that's just my little hang up! :)
I responded on each person's wall (of course, that was back when it was super easy, with the "wall to wall" feature - I miss that.
I said thanks, and then asked something about their life/something I saw on their profile/returned a congrats for a recent milestone/etc. It actually started some great conversations with people with whom I'd dropped out of contact.
I voted for the blanket "thank-you" status, but I think if someone posted something more than "congrats!", for example a personal comment or question, then I would write on their wall.
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This is kinda pretty darn silly, but I thought I'd ask anyway. :P A bunch of my FB friends commented on my engagement status, but quite a few more posted separate congratulations on my wall. I obviously made a blanket "thank you" to everyone in the comments for my status, but should I individually thank each person who made a wall post? Would it look impersonal to comment on each of them all at once? Or would it be worse to just not respond?