A new invitation panel for Events has been released that has removed the ability to select all friends from a particular friends list in order to send them an invite. This has thus rendered friends lists useless for events. Strangely, the new friend invitation panel has NOT been rolled out for Facebook Page suggestions, nor for Facebook Group invitations, so one can still use friend lists to mass-invite to either of those, just not events.
According to allfacebook.com this was rolled out on or around March 18, 2011.
If this is meant as a way to discourage event spamming, this goal will not be accomplished because workarounds exist to spam all friends, regardless of friend lists. In fact if anything, this only discourages proper use of friend lists and promotes mass-spamming tools.
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| The new event invitation panel, with a friend list selected- note that there is no option to select all of the members of the currently-selected friend list. |
According to allfacebook.com this was rolled out on or around March 18, 2011.
If this is meant as a way to discourage event spamming, this goal will not be accomplished because workarounds exist to spam all friends, regardless of friend lists. In fact if anything, this only discourages proper use of friend lists and promotes mass-spamming tools.
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