Each year on your birthday, you probably get a flood of well wishes on your Facebook wall. Maybe someone who really loves you will even post a status update on their own wall wishing you a happy day.
Now, Facebook wants to make birthday messages a little more personal. The social network on Monday announced it is launching a new feature within its iOS app dubbed birthday video cam, which lets you record and share a quick, 15-second video on a friend's wall for their birthday.
When you visit a friend's profile on their birthday, you'll see a banner near the top giving you the option to create a video for them. Once you record a funny or heartfelt message, you can customize the video with different birthday-themed frames before posting it to your friend's timeline.
"Facebook can help connect you to friends both near and far when it's their birthday, and receiving Facebook well-wishes from friends on your own birthday can make your celebration that much more special," a Facebook spokesperson said.
It's safe to say that your friends will be a lot more impressed with a personal video message than a simple "Happy Birthday," or worse yet, an impersonal "HBD" on their wall. If you really want to wow the recipient, you can even have all your mutual friends gather round to record an extra-special group birthday message.
Meanwhile on the mobile front, Facebook also recently added multi-account support for its Android Messenger app, which should be helpful for families who share a communal tablet or professionals who run Facebook business pages. There's no word as to when (or if) the feature will arrive on iOS.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.