8 Jun
2012
8 Jun
'12
1:04 a.m.
On 7 June 2012 19:46, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I don;t know how long said parties last, but let's be generous and say 6
hours. That's 360 minutes. If you invited 360 people (that's 'hundreds')
you;d only soend, on avverage, 1 minute with each of them. That doesn't
sound very friendly to me.
No no - it doesn't work like that.
Many people are on FB but seldom check it. Some don't know how to do
more than post on the wall. Many will not accept the invitation; many
will not notice it. If I issue, say, 200 invitations, maybe,
optimistically, a third will accept. Of those, perhaps 75% - again,
very optimistically - will mean it. Of which maybe a half will come.
Inviting 200-odd people means one actually gets 30 or 40. That's a
good big lively group, but not vast. If 3 or 4 people group around a
table each, say, that's only a dozen or so tables, meaning 20-30 min
per table over a night - long enough for a decent natter and a drink.
I've only organised such big "dos" a few times but it seemed to work.
A party if they all turned up would indeed be very unmanageable, yes!
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