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  • Facebook Pushes Suggested Guests Upon RSVPing

    Facebook is taking a step to better promote events and to help users make events more successful.

    Some users have seen Facebook make an automatic suggestion for users to invite more friends to events, as soon as they RSVP to said event.

    Upon RSVPing, a box will pop up telling users that “events are more fun with your friends. Invite people you know to come along.” Below that message, Facebook will suggest three guests based on the users’ friends. Clicking on the “invite” button will invite them immediately.

    Users can also click “see more suggestions” to bring up three new friends to possibly invite.

    This is currently just a test feature, as not all users are seeing to box when RSVPing.

    This looks like Facebook has taken their “Suggested Guests” feature, first seen nearly a year ago, one step further. The Suggested Guests feature appears at the top right-hand corner of event pages and suggests friends to invite to the event. The Suggested Guests box will show up to anyone and everyone, as long as the event is open.

    [via AllFacebook]

  • Facebook “Suggested Guests” Feature Comes To Events

    Facebook “Suggested Guests” Feature Comes To Events

    Facebook is currently testing a new feature housed within the event pages. It’s called “Suggested Guests” and it does just that – provides a series of suggested guests that you can then invite in one click.

    The Suggested Guests box is appearing at the top right corner of an event page, above the sponsored stories box and some ads. The box displays three people that aren’t currently on the invitee list, and an “invite button” next to their name. Clicking that button will invite them instantly. Clicking “see more suggestions” will simply display a new set of three guests in the box.

    It appears that as long as the event is open, any guest that has been invited will see this box – but only after they have confirmed their own attendance. I also saw the Suggested Guest box after RSVP’ing “maybe” to an event.

    From my limited experience with the new Suggested Guest box, the algorithm does a pretty good job selecting guests that may have been overlooked by the event creator. I cycled through about 12 suggested guests and was surprised that 11 of them weren’t already invited to a particular event.

    As Inside Facebook points out, the box could be enhanced with a little context. Say the event was for a Decemberists concert. Suggested Guests could recommend you invite John Q and display that it was because he just listen to one of their albums on Spotify. Working with the open graph, events could get better and better over time.