Product design question

How would you improve Facebook birthdays?

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What this question tests

Tests product sense on a small, easily-overlooked feature, showing you can still find a real, specific improvement rather than dismissing it.

Identify the current experience: a birthday reminder and a comment thread on the birthday person's timeline, which is functional but shallow.
Identify the pain point: birthday wishes are low-effort and generic ('Happy Birthday!'), so they don't feel meaningful to either party.
Propose an improvement: a lightweight guided prompt suggesting a shared memory (photo, post) to include with the wish, making it more personal with minimal extra effort.
Consider the birthday person's side too: a simple, curated 'best wishes' highlight reel they can revisit, rather than scrolling a long comment thread.
Define success: increase in wishes that include a photo or memory (versus plain text) and the birthday person's engagement with the recap.

Finds a genuine, specific improvement (memory-prompted wishes) instead of dismissing the feature as too minor to improve.
Addresses both sides of the interaction, the wisher and the birthday person, rather than just one.
Uses an illustrative number, e.g. assume 80% of birthday comments today are generic text-only, showing room to make wishes more meaningful.
Picks a measurable proxy for 'meaningfulness' (photo/memory-attached wishes) instead of a vague quality claim.

Treating the question dismissively since it's a minor feature, and giving a shallow or joke answer.
Proposing changes that add friction to what should remain a fast, low-effort action.

How would you avoid this feature feeling like more work for people who just want to send a quick wish?
How would you measure whether the recap feature actually made birthdays feel more special?