Facebook’s Event Invitation Approach
by KieranLet’s be straight here - I’m not a fan. I know there’s quite a few facebook haters in the software community (understandably so in some respects I must admit) so this will add fuel to the fire. One great feature of facebook is the ability to create events, detailing everything about the event and then inviting members. Myself and Amanda decided to create one for our wedding, quite a few of our friends have already done it so we thought it would be a good idea to spread the word in a quick and easy manner. Well, I thought it would be quick and easy.
Sure, facebook has some quirks, but this one is particularly frustrating. When adding members to an event, you have to add them one by one. That’s right, I’ve got over three hundred friends on my facebook account. It gets even worse. You can only add one hundred at a time. That means I had to click each and every individual, but I couldn’t do it in one go. It’s fancied up to the eyebrows with AJAX enabling you to select each friend and they’re nicely added to the left pane, but it’s a painstakingly slow process.
Dear twenty-something-year-old-zubrick-dude,
Please add an "invite all members on my friends list" button to the event management page.
Kind regards
An annoyed (yet using your product for free) user.
I guess not everything can be perfect straight away. Oh well. Why they limit the number of invitations to one hundred at a time is beyond me, perhaps their systems aren’t designed to deal with that? I have no idea, but as an end-user, I shouldn’t need to know. End-users should ‘expect’ things to work, despite their free-use policy 
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The actual reason you can’t add all of your friends to a group or an invitation at once on facebook (the limit being 100) is because the facebook creator is such a nerd he can count the number of friends on one hand - don’t forget the thumb doesn’t count either.
p.s the others are his mum, dad and imaginary friend, with himself being the fourth. Therefore excluding his genious streak to rip off the idea of facebook from a friend as well as many previous networking sites, he can’t actually comprehend having to invite that sheer amount of people to an event, as that many friends to him is just extra ordinary.
Amanda Le Prevost, aka the fiance.