While not all project teams are same, one perspective I sometimes see this being from the fact people actually "marketing" the project can be clueless about how

While not all project teams are same, one perspective I sometimes see this being from the fact people actually "marketing" the project can be clueless about how to market in social scenes. I've seen people (often "suit" type) expressing their mentality of "since these people using product knows how to communicate in social media, have them do something for us" while themselves being quite clueless how things work in these environments, or not even willing to learn by actually using them. (and some of those people have over-sensitibity to privacy in social network, or some sort of "phobia" in these environment...<sigh>... come on, aren't you trying to "market" the product in these places??) I don't know if this is necessarily the case for this type of "invite" feature, but I wouldn't be surprised this type of mentality being a driving force of this.