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A good number of people I know have left facebook for everything but the events. Its still the one central location where pretty much everybody is. I would lov

A good number of people I know have left facebook for everything but the events. Its still the one central location where pretty much everybody is. I would love nothing more than a standalone events app that not only had future events, but a, 'hey, I'm at %location%, anyone want to meet up?' that allowed for multiple degrees of social interaction --- e.g. just friends, anybody.

Jtsummers 9y ago
This is the primary reason I use it. It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read). 99% of my use is to post event announcements, and respond to event invites from friends. If I could trust people to properly respond to emailed invites, I would, but most people I know have 1k+ unread emails. They'll never notice it. FB replaced my email+SMS+(various messaging app) approach from before, but caught almost all my intended audience in one place. There may be other services I could use, but people would have to create yet another account, which isn't likely.
- stevewillows 9y ago
  I don't know how people can live with an inbox like that. I'd go crazy. I first started leaving Facebook when my feed was consumed with children and lovey-dovey posts. That's cute and all, but I can only handle so much of that (let's round up to one per month...) Down the road, if things start going south for Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke off the events into a separate app.
- ionised 9y ago
  > It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read). This sounds batshit crazy to me. Honestly if my partner expected that of me and used it as a reason to be upset with me I'd be thinking of ending the relationship.

Jtsummers 9y ago

This is the primary reason I use it. It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read). 99% of my use is to post event announcements, and respond to event invites from friends. If I could trust people to properly respond to emailed invites, I would, but most people I know have 1k+ unread emails. They'll never notice it. FB replaced my email+SMS+(various messaging app) approach from before, but caught almost all my intended audience in one place. There may be other services I could use, but people would have to create yet another account, which isn't likely.

stevewillows 9y ago
I don't know how people can live with an inbox like that. I'd go crazy. I first started leaving Facebook when my feed was consumed with children and lovey-dovey posts. That's cute and all, but I can only handle so much of that (let's round up to one per month...) Down the road, if things start going south for Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke off the events into a separate app.
ionised 9y ago
> It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read). This sounds batshit crazy to me. Honestly if my partner expected that of me and used it as a reason to be upset with me I'd be thinking of ending the relationship.