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Post by Tamhugh on Jan 14, 2018 4:08:56 GMT
I have a group of women that I get together with once a month for dinner. The reminder/invite goes out each month on FB but there is one woman in the group who does not use it. I send her a text about a week before hand.
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Post by PrettyInPeank on Jan 14, 2018 5:23:45 GMT
I sent out a Facebook invite for one of my kid's birthday parties one year. Every mother was also my friend, except for a neighbor. Our kids played together. It was just sort of unspoken that we both just would rather not be Facebook friends. You know those relationships where you prefer to just keep it neighborly.
Anyway, I verbally told her the details of the upcoming birthday, and then slept on it and realized what a jerk I was for doing that. So I went to the Dollar Tree, found something simple with balloons, wrote it down for her, and brought it over. The whole point of physical invitations is to have a visual reminder, so it was rude.of me to just expect her to remember those details or have her be forced to ask me for them if she forgot.
Not having Facebook or not being Facebook friends is not an excuse, and is rude to exclude.
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jan 14, 2018 7:08:40 GMT
And another thing ... Facebook is notoriously random about sending notifications. So you can't guarantee someone will see your invite in a timely fashion. Truthfully, I'm thinking someone who can't be bothered to invite you somehow if you aren't active on Facebook is just as happy to have you not show up at all. Who needs friends like that? Yes. I can be on facebook several times a day and never see a Facebook invitation, especially if I am on my phone. There is a LOT I don't see on facebook. It's oxymoronic to want to invite someone and then refuse to send an invitation they can see. |
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Post by Just Beth on Jan 14, 2018 8:01:07 GMT
We use FB invites in my group of friends. However I keep a list in the notes section of my phone of people who are not on FB to invite them separately. I think cutting out people just because they don’t do FB is nuts.
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Post by Country Ham on Jan 14, 2018 20:45:22 GMT
I don't think I have ever hosted an invent that I haven't spoken directly to each person invited. The formal invite whether on paper, email, text or social media is just more of a reminder.
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Post by disneypal on Jan 14, 2018 21:36:46 GMT
Of course they should get an invite by some other means (email, phone call, etc.). FB isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, why exclude them simply because they aren’t on FB?
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Post by mrssmith on Jan 15, 2018 19:51:15 GMT
Most of the party invites I get are via evite, not FB. But if I didn't have someones email I'd figure out another way to contact them, not say too bad, I don't have your email!
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Jan 15, 2018 20:18:21 GMT
I want to go back to cute paper invites I can hang by the calendar to remind me there is something coming up to look forward to. I don't mind FB in general, but I hate FB invites. Yeah, yeah. Paper waste and all that. We waste more paper doing less worthwhile things than we do in invitations. The social skills of younger generations are going to make us shake our canes in the air soon.
As for your question -- selfish assholes. If you can't be bothered to find another way to reach out to someone, why bother calling them your friend? We have more than enough ways to communicate. FB was meant to enhance, not replace all of the other options. Aaaarrggghhh.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jan 15, 2018 20:32:28 GMT
LOL at the FB snobs. You know, anyone who's anyone uses snapchat these days.  |
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