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Thursday, December 07, 2006


To sum up a 1,400 word piece in The New York Times style section, Evites suck.
In the centuries before party invitations were pinged across cyberspace, invitees did not feel compelled to explain in depth how a soiree conflicted with their Lamaze class, spa weekend or Ironman competition. Regrets were nonspecific platitudes. And the only people who heard them were the hosts.

No more.

Each month, more than 10 million invitations are sent through Evite.com, and a significant number of them encourage people to not only reply, but to also write a personal comment that can be viewed by everyone on the guest list.

And while some people simply refuse to respond to Evite invitations, countless others find themselves composing clever detailed responses that require so much effort, they end up R.S.V.-Peeved.
I find them obnoxious and pretentious as hell. Not only for giving other potential guests an insight into who is not only invited, but will be attending, but for giving the host the insight into the degree to which you're ignoring it. I love getting the plaintive evite follow-up email that says "why haven't you responded to the evite? You viewed it twice already. . . " Game over. The only way to deal with these annoying little things is to ignore them.



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