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Reporter, TNWMic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy. Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy.
Facebook already added read receipts to Messenger making it hard to avoid boring people who somehow still clutter your ‘friends’ list, now it wants to make Events just as tedious.
According to The Daily Dot, Events read receipts will give hosts the ability to see who has opened their invites and checked updates on an event page. They’ll be visible on mobile and desktop.
This is what Facebook’s new friendship destruction device (event read receipts) looks like pic.twitter.com/Nv1IZfnCJ6
— Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) September 14, 2015
A Facebook spokesperson told the Daily Dot: “We’re piloting the ability for private event hosts and guests to know whether their friends they invited have seen the event.”
My new rule? I’m not even looking at my Event notifications when this rolls out. You can find me (and The Next Web) on Twitter.
➤ Facebook brings read receipts to another high-profile feature [The Daily Dot]