Talk:Friendship Day

message: This has way too many outgoing links. I would prune the list, in keeping with WP:LINK. Which links are more important here? Shabda 08:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Links 

message: The "international" part of this article seems a bit dubious, could someone provide proof that this is even widely known about let alone celebrated? I'm in Europe and have never heard of this festival, neither has anyone I've asked. Unless there's proof to the contrary, surely we should assume this is a US-only thing? --88.112.159.22 (talk) 19:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks & you're right. Yes as verified with my Indian colleagues here in SG, most of people from Indian Subcontinent should be aware of this festival especially the students in colleges. Back to the whole Asia / EA / SEA, it is really not so popular in local life as I experienced, while that really depend on countries you stay as I believe. --Gzyeah (talk) 03:14, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

text: Actually, it seems that there are a few different "Friendship Days" in different countries, celebrated on different days, which are covered by this article.  The UN "International Friendship Day" only forms part of this article.  I suggest that the article be moved (back) to Friendship Day so that it can more accurately capture the different variants.  —sroc (talk) 08:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ... I just received a message about wishes of friendship-day sent by random user from Libya on "WeChat" IM few minutes ago... which is my first time to heard about this festival... probably it is still not very well known yet in world today... and since the name settled by UN is more particular for the day on 30th July, rather than "every first Sunday of August" which is applied by most of countries on the globe, it should be right to move back this page to "Friendship Day" with origin of its development, while creating another paragraph to talk about decision of UN for "International Friendship Day" separately as the best way to do. --Gzyeah (talk) 17:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many people outside America have even heard of this? 

message: I was born in and have lived in the United States for 22 years and have never heard of this holiday. I've tried verifying the claim that this holiday was created by a declaration of the US Congress in 1935 to no avail. I can't find the exact date of this declaration, the name of the bill, or the declaration itself. The only cited "source" for this holiday is a non-historic article trying to sell products by brand name and doesn't appear to be reliable (I'm about to remove it).
The origins of this holiday appear to be a hoax and this article should either be updated to reflect that or deleted unless someone can actually find a real source. It seems that this holiday is somehow related to Bangladesh or India based upon what I'm seeing; I saw a reference to the former on Facebook, the latter via a Web search and this page, as well as references to Hinduism via Web search.
Patrick Garies (talk) 04:36, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Same here, and I'm more than twice that age.  However, it does seem to be catching on in South Asian social networking sites, and I have been told through SMS as well.  I was told by an informant in India that its origins were western.  So it may be that it's a South Asian holiday in origin, but that it's believed to have these American origins referred to in the article.  I'm going to try to address the article to be a little more accurate, based on what we know so far. Bruxism (talk) 08:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax? 

message: On Feb 2, 2017, Facebook (and Facebook users) celebrated "friends day"...  --Fjmustak (talk) 22:09, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facebook's friendship day 

message: Why is the short description in Spanish? I saw that on my phone when I looked it up. LPS and MLP Fan (LittlestPetShop) (MyLittlePony) 18:47, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short Description 

message: When is the friendship day 202.91.40.225 (talk) 05:03, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  When is the friendship day