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Re:Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email by Semaphor on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:02AM (#18937545)
I'm younger (early 30ies), I've never even heard of evite, I've probably gotten one e-mail invite in my life and haven't gotten a text invite pretty much since FB became open for everyone. A few invites arrive via snailmail, but the vast majority of invites are on FB. And that's not even mentioning public events, what do you do, look through all clubs and bar websites individually when you want to go out?
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Re:Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email by gnicholas on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:13AM (#18937577)
Never heard of Evite, that's incredible! I didn't realize that 5 years could make that big a difference. As for clubs and bars, I have a 4-year old so not hitting those much. But even before that, I never "liked" businesses on FB anyway, for privacy/tracking reasons.
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Re:Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email by Semaphor on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:25AM (#18937612)
I would think that this is more a cultural thing. Evite seems US-focused or at the very least English-only. While I use FB in English, I know most of my friends use it in German.
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