Tech Table Wednesday, November 13, 2013
November 13, 2013
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech Table. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana.
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.
Diana: We promise it’ll be easy to digest. Hi Justin!
Justin: Hey Diana, it’s Wednesday.
Diana: That’s right, we talk about stuff on the web on Wednesday, but first I want to talk about real life stuff that’s not about the web.
Justin: Okay.
Diana: Have you gone to any events lately or do you have any coming up?
Justin: Have I got to any events? Do I have anything coming up? Well, I have a lot of things coming up, yeah, I do. But most of them, they’re not really public things. What are you looking for?
Diana: Well, no I was just curious.
Justin: I feel like you’re prepping me for information, so.
Diana: Well what we’re talking about today is creating event invitations on Facebook.
Justin: Right.
Diana: And so have you ever created one of those?
Justin: No, I always ask you to do that.
Diana: That’s right. But have you ever responded to one? You’ve seen people invite you to things.
Justin: Yeah, no. Or maybe. Very rarely do I say yes to a Facebook. Because a lot of times I feel like people use those, they invite every person on their entire friends list.
Diana: That they know. Oh yeah, you get invitations for things in like Budapest.
Justin: Oh yeah, a baby shower in Upstate New York. Well.
Diana: Yeah, definitely going to that this weekend.
Justin: Yeah, probably not.
Diana: I’d love to.
Justin: I know, right? Does it come with a plane ticket? That’s my question.
Diana: No. Yeah, but it is really cool.
Justin: Oops, I just lost a Facebook friend right there.
Diana: You can create these events and they can be for personal things. They can be public or private and invite only certain people. You can set all of the privacy settings however you like.
Justin: Right, so do you know, what does Facebook really think these events should be used for? I mean do they just think you can use these Facebook events for anything or were they made for a person having a party or a grand opening? Or were they made for like a concert, you know what I mean? Just all these things?
Diana: See, they’re really made for how I think however the user wants to use them. Facebook really wants people to use their tools.
Justin: Sure. I’ve just found they work better for some events than others.
Diana: They do work better for some events. They work best for events that are like one time events in my experience. If you have.
Justin: And not long running either.
Diana: Exactly.
Justin: Not like a sale that’s happening for a week.
Diana: Yeah, no that doesn’t.
Justin: That gets really awkward on Facebook events, but you can use Facebook events, you know this time of year everyone’s having a Christmas party or something like that and you can create a Facebook event for your Christmas party, right Diana.
Diana: Right, right. Or I threw together a party for my friend who was getting married and literally she didn’t have a party coming up so we said let’s do this, you know, two days before the wedding and we just put together this nice event telling her friends and family to come to dinner that night, and letting them know. We got some good, decent response.
Justin: Great, so how do you do it?
Diana: So, first you gotta log into Facebook.
Justin: So you have to have a Facebook account.
Diana: You have to have a Facebook account.
Justin: Makes sense.
Diana: And then there’s a tab called events. You’re going to click on that tab, click then, create event, and then fill in the details on the form. There’s the who, the what, the when, the where, the how, the why, that sort of thing, you know? Make sure you get the details on the form and then you’re going to invite the friends. That’s your who do you want to come. And like I said you can set your privacy then to public, or.
Justin: It’s everyone, you can invite anyone on, can you invite people other than people on your friends list? Or no?
Diana: Not in my experience, no.
Justin: So you have to be Facebook friends.
Diana: They have to be your friends.
Justin: Alright, so that doesn’t always work for someone who has like you know, great Aunt Doris that’s not Facebook connected.
Diana: Right.
Justin: You can’t invite her, so you have to remember to call Great Aunt Doris if you want her, you know, probably have to talk loud into the phone for Great Aunt Doris, too. We all have one of those.
Diana: But then, you can set it so your friends can invite other friends and invite other people.
Justin: So it could get crazy.
Diana: Yeah, you can, this could be a big deal, so set your privacy and then click create event and then you’re good to go.
Justin: Great, excellent. Well that’s how you create a Facebook event. So you could try that, maybe for your New Year’s Party, or your Christmas Party, even your Christmas program at church, something like that. You can invite everyone that you know and it would be a great outreach.
Diana: Yeah.
Justin: So, great, excellent. Well, until next time.
Diana: Take care.
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Justin: And thanks for listening.
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