Facebook recently updated the Events feature in a bid to make it easier to create and manage Events.
Facebook Events engineer Bob Baldwin says the new invite features will make the experience “feel more similar to inviting someone via SMS/email and getting back their response“.
Changes have been made to four key areas; creating events, inviting, declining, and the Events’ wall.
Setting up is now easier with fewer fields to add. Creators can just add a name, date, and privacy setting to get started. Details, location, and time can be added later, making Events a nice tool for planning casual get-together too. There is now a friends privacy option (public and invite only) and support for timezones.
Changes made to the wall include making the wall primarily for those guest who are attending or might do so. It also works more like the Groups feed. One can follow individual posts and ask questions. Wall posts are now shown in order of engagement. So, posts get bumped to the top when someone comments.
Event creator will now receive notification when someone accepts an invite. Facebook will also show a list of guest suggestion on the right so that hosts can make sure that they haven’t missed out friends. Multiple people can be listed as hosts, so users can expect multiple invitations of an Event (talk about peer pressure!)
Declining is much more personal now. If you decline an event, only the people who invited you will see the declination. Same with your reason for doing so.
Do you use Facebook Events? What do you think about the changes?
As Facebook becomes a bigger and bigger network community one can gain and gathering more friends. Why not have an application that is for events planning and what not. This feature of Facebook not only gives the user a chance to organize parties, events, and other activities but helps a person to do more than just that. The event planning application is able to give people several options. The first option is that the events application allows for a user to set up an event. After this is done the user is then able to plan and organize the event to their settings. A person can input information such as: date, time, place and other things. Another major feature of this application is that a person can decide who to invite for his/her party.
One can also view friend’s invitations to parties. This amazing aspect of the events application gives a person a chance to only not see but to RSVP to the event to gain new friends and better network connections. By gaining better network connections and by exploring this application one can gain more and more knowledge of what is out there on Facebook.
Another aspect of the event application is that a person can see what events already happened in the past. By being able to do this a person can see what they have missed and can learn more about the party scene in general.
One last feature of the events application is the birthday feature. With this feature one can view whose upcoming birthdays are coming up and a person can see what they should plan for in the future. Sometimes you never know which friend’s birthdays are coming up and it is always good to be prepared.
