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I tried to plan my fiance’s 30th birthday party using Facebook. I thought it would be a great way to get all our friend’s together since they were all on Facebook or so I thought…

Plus it has ways to keep tally of those who are attending or not attending events and you could create a secret group. Wonderful!

Not so much. Great plan in theory, but most of our friends chose to respond to me in the Facebook email inbox and really didn’t use the attending or not attending – and barely posted anything to the wall.

Then I realized just how many of our friends were not on Facebook. Very difficult to coordinate.

The whole secret group thing – well it has some bugs, because when you add the event aspect – even if it’s secret, I still get notifications in my profile that x number of people joined the group, or are attending the y event.. It doesn’t show up on my fiance’s profile, but it shows up in mine, which if he happens to walk by while you’re on Facebook – say goodbye to the secret part of things.

I think next year I’ll just go back to creating a secret email account and the telephone…