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The most important part of organizing any event is making sure you invite the right people. For example, if you're planning a birthday party, you might want to invite the same friends who went to a fun BBQ the weekend before. To enable this, we recently added the ability to invite friends to an event based on who was invited to past events you've attended.

This new feature of Facebook Events works by allowing you to filter your friends by recent events. When inviting friends to a new Facebook event, click on the tab labeled "Filter Friends" in... the upper-left corner. The drop-down menu will display the five most recent events you either created or attended in the past month.



When you click on one of these events, you will see all of your friends that were invited to that event, regardless of whether they actually attended. Keep in mind that only your confirmed friends with will appear in this selection. If 50 people were invited to last weekend's BBQ but you are only Facebook friends with 20 of them, you will only see those 20 people.

From this selection, you can invite people individually or click "Select All." Then select "Send Invitations" at the bottom of the field.

With this new filter, we hope you will be able to organize even more events and invite the best mix of people.


Brynn Shepherd, a product design intern from the University of Pennsylvania, is excited that the feature she built this summer is now live.