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How To Bypass The Facebook Event Invite Limit

The document provides a guide to bypassing Facebook's event invite limit of 500 people by creating multiple copies of the same event with slightly different names and organizing friends into custom lists of 500 people or less to invite to each corresponding event copy. It explains how to use Graph Search to segment friends and add them to lists, and then how to select the appropriate list when sending invites to each mirrored event copy. The guide states that an upcoming extension will make the process of organizing friends into lists easier.

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How To Bypass The Facebook Event Invite Limit

The document provides a guide to bypassing Facebook's event invite limit of 500 people by creating multiple copies of the same event with slightly different names and organizing friends into custom lists of 500 people or less to invite to each corresponding event copy. It explains how to use Graph Search to segment friends and add them to lists, and then how to select the appropriate list when sending invites to each mirrored event copy. The guide states that an upcoming extension will make the process of organizing friends into lists easier.

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How to Bypass the Facebook Event Invite Limit

A How-to guide by Friend Manager

You have probably run into the following screen when sending invites on Facebook. Most people are
seeing this screen in Figure 1 after inviting just 500 people to their event. What are you supposed to do if
you have 1000, 2000 or 5000 friends? Not invite them all? Totally unacceptable!

Facebook, in their quest to squash SPAM from their platform, have put some serious restrictions on user
accounts; limiting people that rely on sending invites to their events. Well, we have a solution for you.

Figure 1. The dreaded limit screen.


What’s the solution you say? Well, we won’t take up too much of your time since it is such a valuable
commodity. Our solution is to create multiple copies of the same event, naming each one slightly different.
For example, you create an event and name it “Hustle Jam” as an example.

Facebook has a feature known as repetitive event creation. What that allows you to do is copy events
AND change the name and date or time. Get this, here is the kicker: You do not HAVE to change the date
and time, you can have multiple events at the same location, at the same time. It’s so easy to do and
makes your life easier. See Figure 2 for a screen shot of where to get started, but do not stop reading this
guide as we have some more important information to disclose later.

Figure 2. The Copy Event link.

Once you click on copy event, you are presented with another dialog. You can change the event name,
location, date and time, but you do not have to. We recommend changing the name and we’ll get into
why in a few. Here is what you will see. Check out Figure 3 and 4.

Notice we named this event “Hustle Jam Guys VIP list” Well, if you have half of a brain for marketing, a
flood of ideas should be entering your thought patterns now. Using custom lists on Facebook you can
literally sort your friends into smaller manageable lists. Say 500 friends or less per list. Do you see where
I am going with this yet?

You can literally create 2,3,4 or 10 mirror copies of events, then, invite each list you have setup to each
corresponding event.

Using Graph Search you can pull your friends and put them into named lists. More on that in a bit.
Figure 3. Create repeat event.

Figure 4. Another event for VIP ladies!


Figure 5. Multiple events on the same date and time!

Organizing your friends into lists:


It will take you some time to organize your friends into lists and we are hard at work building an extension
to make this time consuming task easier.

For now so you can get started right away. Here is how to perform some graph search magic to show your
friends by gender, age, relationship status and location. Then we show you how to place them into lists.

Graph Search Phrases:


The following Graph search phrases will help you segment your friends into much more manageable and
appropriately sized lists. Please keep in mind that Graph search only works if your Facebook language is
set to US English. It will NOT work on any other language settings. You can check your language under
Facebooks settings and language link.
Figure 6. Graph search results

As you can see these graph search phrases will indeed return your friends that match your search criteria.
It should also be noted that results will only be obtained if the friend has made the information you are
searching for public knowledge with the exception of gender.

Adding users to lists:


This process is tedious and time consuming, so we decided to create a tool to help automate the process.
It should be ready in short order. We wanted to go ahead and put this guide out there, as we know many
people are affected by Facebooks limitations.

Figure 7. Add to list displays when you hover over the friend’s box.
There are a few clicks for each friend you want to add to a list. We suggest putting some thought into
how you want to segregate your own friends and their respective lists. For example, you could have 2
lists, or 300 lists. You can place friends into multiple lists or just one. This setup is going to depend on
how you send invites and who gets what invites.

For the record there are some lists that are automatically setup by Facebook. Like family, places you
have lived, your school’s alumni. What we are suggesting is to create your own custom lists for use in
sending invites.

Figure 8. Click new list to create a newly named custom friends list.

Name Your List:


Once you click on New List, you need to give it a name. Choose something identifiable, so that when it
comes time to send the invites, you select the list from the invite dialogs drop down list selection and click
on the new Facebook select all link. Instantly sending up to 500 Invites.

As I am putting this guide together, I keep getting new ideas to make things easier and more streamlined.
When naming your events, you could easily create event names that coordinate with your intended list
name. As you saw earlier I was creating events for VIP Guys and VIP Girls. You could expand on this in
numerous ways only limited by the results that Graph Search is able to provide. Maybe you want a list of
friends that also like Pink Floyd or that watch House. Creating a special event for your friends that like
craft beer and live music. Put graph search to work and start building your lists.

BONUS!
There is also another bonus to this type of setup. It’s easier to invite the right people to your event. With
the select all JavaScript and extensions that were in use prior to this change, you would blast as many
people as you could. Did not matter if a person lived 1500 miles away and would never attend one of
your events.

Figure 10 – Name that list, make it recognizable for what it contains.

Once you have your custom lists defined and an idea of how you are going to approach placing all your
friends into lists so that they are easy to remember and use for invites, it’s just a matter of clicking on
each friend and placing them into their respective lists. It’s a time consuming task, but one that can be
spread out over a few days so it is less daunting.

How to send your invites:


Now that you have done all that heavy lifting and sorted all your friends into manageable lists. It’s time
to send out the invites. This is the easy part. Head on over to each event you created, and just the same
as you did before, open each event, and click on Invite>Choose Friends. Now when you are presented
with an invite dialog, you just select the list you want to send the invites to, then click select all.
Figure 11 – how to select your name lists from the lists area to send your invites.

Coming Soon!
We are building an extension for Chrome that will make sorting your friends into lists much easier. We
will have preformatted graph search strings that will allow you to simply perform a graph search, click the
extensions icon and the friends retrieved will be stored locally, counted, displayed and automatically
placed into the list you select from a choice of your existing lists.

Our goal is to help make your life easier one click at a time. If you have any further questions, comments,
ideas or criticism, feel free to visit friend-manager.com and leave us a message there. We look forward to
hearing from our customers and will do everything within reason to help you achieve success with your
Facebook marketing efforts.

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