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I do it over email. Or even text. Or voice even. It works just fine.

Really, it is entirely possible to schedule events without Facebook. It was possible to do so when FB was not there, and it is possible to do it now :)

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You can't control how other people schedule events.

You don't. People change the way they schedule events, or more likely they make an exception for you. A lot more people do that than people who just don't invite me to things.

They want me there, so why shouldn't they make an effort? If they don't want me there at least that badly, why would I want to be there? Luckily, I don't have that problem - people text me, or email me, or try to run into me or something.

Which is fine - people make an exception for you. But the original point was that other people use Facebook to schedule things, and the response was "Well, I schedule things over email and text." Which misses the point, because we're talking about other people's behavior, not your own.

Yeah, but the question is how do you make other people do that.

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