What Are Facebook Invitations?
Facebook allows you not only to communicate online with your contacts, but also to plan and coordinate real-life events, such as birthday parties, happy hours and larger-scale get-togethers. To organize an event using Facebook, create an Event page, then use Facebook's "Invitation" feature to invite your contacts to attend.
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Facebook Events
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When you plan a new event -- be it to celebrate an engagement or pregnancy, to play music or a movie, or for any other reason -- one way to advertise and promote it is to create an "Event" page on Facebook. To get started, click the "Events" line on the left side of your main Facebook "News Feed," then click the "Create a New Event" option. Doing so allows you to create a page dedicated to your event, complete with the running time, a detailed description and even photos.
Invitations
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After you create your event, you need to invite people to it to make sure they attend. Clicking the "Invite Friends" button takes you to an interface which displays the names and profile pictures of everyone in your contacts list. Here, you can check boxes next to the names of everyone you want to attend -- or, if you prefer, click "Select All" to invite everyone -- then send the invites with a single click.
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RSVP
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After you send out your invites, each friend you've invited will receive notification of the event. Namely, Facebook sends him a message informing him that you've invited him. As the date draws nearer, Facebook will remind your friend of the even. When he friend logs into his Facebook account, your event will appear in the top, right corner of his main Facebook "News Feed" page, in the "Upcoming Events" pane, alongside any other events to which he's responded.
Attendees
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The Facebook Invitation function also applies to your event page itself. Specifically, when someone RSVPs to an invitation, her name appears on the event page under "Attending," "Maybe Attending" or "Not Attending," which allows prospective attendees to see who will and won't be at the event. Knowing the type of crowd to expect at an event -- such the number of people and whether or not anyone they know personally will be attending -- can help others decide whether or not to attend.
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