I'd never encountered 'Evite' in the UK, but it's the de facto social tool over here. If you're organising a tea party/guitar-and-bongo-beach-outing/whooping sesh, the website helps facilitate the guestlist....so everyone can see who's said 'yes', 'no' or 'maybe' to some proposed fun.
This is not a good thing.
We all know that there're people who can make or break parties. So if Ferris Bueller immediately tells the world that he's NOT going to your birthday party, you can expect to be all alone, weeping into a cake by 9pm.
'Maybe' is, of course, the 'fuck-you' response. It perfectly describes the all pervasive 'yeah-i'll-come-if-nothing-better-comes-along' social strategy of the mobile age. More to the point, it renders Evite entirely pointless. 'Ah I see....all my friends might be going.....thanks Worldwide Interweb...I'd best wire them a telegram to check'.
I also suspect that Eviters take a register when you arrive at the 'event'.
"Isaac?"
"Here!"
"Good...now get whooping"
Still, if you know the entire cast of the party before you arrive, at least you can pre-prepare witty 'chat-lite'. I met a girl on Friday night with a tattooed face and a pet tarantula who had almost no interest in The Ashes at all.
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