How To Invite People To A Facebook Event?

Sending out personal invitations to events is old news! With Facebook now you can just create an event online and invite everyone to it. In this article, let’s see how to invite people to a Facebook event.

Facebook is that one social media platform that everyone has a profile on. You probably have hundreds and thousands of friends on Facebook. Now whether they are actually active or not is a different matter. But if you want to invite a lot of people to some event Facebook is a great way to invite them to it. The best thing about the Facebook event feature is that you can invite anyone on Facebook; even people you’re not friends with.

Let’s see how to invite people to a Facebook event:

How To Invite People To My Facebook Event?

Your Facebook event can be an online event like scheduling a game time for your Facebook group or you can create an in-person event. Creating events on Facebook and inviting people can save a lot of your time. Hosting an event on Facebook is very easy and as a host, you can control the privacy settings to who can see your event and who can join the event. Start by creating an event and once you have created your Facebook event you can send invites to people.

Here are the steps to invite people to a Facebook event:

1. Open the Facebook application and tap on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the screen.
2. Tap on Events and from the calender choose the event you want to send invites to.
3. Tap on the Invite button and then tap on Invite beside the names of people you want to invite.

Invites will be automatically sent to everyone you choose to invite. You can even filter the people you want to invite by groups.

How To Invite People You’re Not Friends With To A Facebook Event?

Are you not friends with someone but you still want to invite them to your Facebook event? As long as you are connected to them on some platform, like WhatsApp or even email, you can send a Facebook event invite to them.

Here are the steps to invite people to your Facebook event outside of Facebook:

1. Open the Facebook app and tap on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the screen.
2. Tap on Events and from the calender choose the event you want to send invites to.
3. Then tap on Share and choose the platform you want to share the event with them on.

They will be sent a link to your Facebook event and they can accept or decline the invite as per their choice.

Will I Know If People Accept The Facebook Event Invitation?

If you’ve sent your Facebook event invites to people and are wondering whether they are accepting the invites or not you don’t have to keep wondering for too long. Facebook tells you when people accept your event invitation.

Here are the steps to find out who accepted your Facebook event invitation:

1. Open Facebook and tap on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the screen.
2. Tap on Events and from the calender choose the event you want to see the responses to.
3. Scroll down to find the Responses tab and there you’ll see the number of people Going.
4. Tap on Going to see who all has accepted the Facebook event invitation.

In a similar way, you will be able to see everyone who responds to your invitation with Maybe. And you can take a guess of all the people who aren’t going by looking at the numbers invited and the responses you received.

Conclusion

So to conclude, we saw how to invite people to a Facebook event. You can use this Facebook feature when you want to invite a lot of people to an event and sending personal invites to everyone seems like an inconvenience.

When you host an event on Facebook you can control who can see your event by adjusting the privacy settings. Similarly, you can filter out the people that can join your event and whether they can invite other people to the event. You can also send your Facebook event invites to people you aren’t friends with on Facebook. All you need to do is have their email ID or phone number or be connected with them on some other social media platform. You can share the link to your Facebook event with them and they can accept or decline as per their availability.

Then you can find out when people accept your invitation to a Facebook event by checking the responses you’ve gotten to the event. You get responses for people going, those who say maybe, and those who decline the invitation.

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