# "Maybe Attending" Muppets (Facebook)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-attending-muppets-facebook/499610>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 12, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-attending-muppets-facebook/499610 "2009-06-12T22:32:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-attending-muppets-facebook/499610/81 "2009-06-20T00:44:56Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> In another way though, email is less intimate. On facebook, you can see that you’re part of a select group who received this invite wheras with email, if everybody’s name is BCCed, you don’t know if you’re going to an event for 5 or 50 people.

The OP was about a dinner party. I think you can safely assume it’s not for 50 people. 😃

Who would BCC a private invite like that, anyway? I wouldn’t invite anyone to an event that was unsafe to have the email address of someone else I’d invited.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-attending-muppets-facebook/499610/82 "2009-06-22T15:00:19Z")

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> [@scifisam2009](#):
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> Who would BCC a private invite like that, anyway? I wouldn’t invite anyone to an event that was unsafe to have the email address of someone else I’d invited.

For five people, I wouldn’t. But if I were having a larger gathering, I’d BCC everyone just to avoid the huge header, even if it were perfectly safe to give everyone access to everyone else’s email.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-attending-muppets-facebook/499610/83 "2009-06-22T19:50:21Z")

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> In another way though, email is less intimate. On facebook, you can see that you’re part of a select group who received this invite wheras with email, if everybody’s name is BCCed, you don’t know if you’re going to an event for 5 or 50 people.

> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> For five people, I wouldn’t. But if I were having a larger gathering, I’d BCC everyone just to avoid the huge header, even if it were perfectly safe to give everyone access to everyone else’s email.

That’s fair enough. But a gathering that large would be fine for a Facebook group anyway, IMO.

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