Want to stand out from the others saying “Happy Birthday” or, if really creative, “Hope you have a Happy Birthday” on someone’s social media? You could add a birthday bitmoji! I personally prefer the unicorn one:

If you don’t have that app, the Internet has your back. You can easily grab a birthday gif or meme from google. This is a fun one…

Then there’s the need to draw attention to ourselves on our birthdays. But what is the perfect thing to say when posting our selfies? 

Seventeen magazine weighed in recently with a list of “35 Birthday Instagram Captions Perfect To Celebrate Your Big Day.” Some of my faves from the list included:

• “Surround yourself with people who are more excited for your birthday than you are.”
• “It’s not the years that count, it’s the memories you make over these years.”
• “Hold on to your inner child as you grow older.”
• “Live your life and forget your age.”
• “This is my year of dreams coming true.”
• “Birthdays are good for me. The more I have, the longer I live.”
• “Of course, I don’t know how to act my age. I’ve never been this age before!”

To me, some of Seventeen’s suggestions work better as a social media post you’d share with someone celebrating their birthday:

• “It’s your birthday you don’t have to do nothin’.” – Destiny’s Child, ‘Birthday’
• “Birthdays are nature’s way of telling you to eat more cake.” — Jo Brand
• “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” — Walt Disney
• “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” — Dr. Seuss

Still need some ideas? Try some birthday jokes. The ones I found on this site are pretty awful, but they sent me to this video with some funny ones: