Facebook Tips: Remove Event
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can be an INCREDIBLY useful social utility, but for all its potential it can be hard to figure out. Fortunately, there are little things you can do to help make the chaos a lot easier to manage.
Don’t Want to Go
The Facebook Events application is great. Its a nice, easy way to let all your friends know about an event you’d like them to come to, and if you’re feeling like the whole world might as well attend, all your friends have to do is invite all of THEIR friends and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, when you want to share an event, its easier to invite everybody than to sort through your friends-list and only invite the people you think would be interested. This means that quite often, we get invitations to events we don’t even care about. Sally’s party that you can’t make it to is one thing, but “Inform those in your life who are dumb to never reproduce” day is another matter entirely.
Don’t Want to Know
Clearly, “Yes” and “Maybe” aren’t the way to get rid of this, but clicking “No” isn’t going to completely make it go away either. You’ve been invited, and this event is now on your Facebook calendar, and every event on your Facebook calendar will show up on your Home-Page in the “Events” section starting three days before the event occurs to the moment it ends.
To prevent this, take a look a the blue text beneath the “Yes”, “No” and “Maybe” buttons. The little blue hyper-link there reading “Remove from my Events” will remove every scrap of that event from your Facebook experience.
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January 16th, 2010 at 6:26 am
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January 17th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Cool! I didn't know that. Thanks, Jonah
January 17th, 2010 at 6:45 am
I didn't know it myself for three or more years of Facebook use, and while it might not have have been a feature for some of that time, I know it was around for quite some time before I discovered it, and I was very happy once I did.
Glad I could help – I try.
January 19th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Great tip, mister Jonah!
January 19th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I didn't even know there was a calendar that kept everything. thanks.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Why thank you Mistah Troy. :3
January 19th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
That there is.
If you'd like to see it, you simply have to visit the events application.
Glad to help.
May 5th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Is there some way to un-remove myself from an event? I accidentally clicked that for my own party and now I can't see the event at all, even if I directly type in the link.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Hi MikeyAlice,
I don't know why you can't seem to find your event. I tried to recreate your situation and was able to find an event after having removed it from my events (Here is a screen cast of my doing so: http://screencast.com/t/MDQzNmZlOWE )
It seems logical that possibly by removing the event, you deleted it, so I'd be sure to check with some friends you invited to the event that it still exists.
If push comes to shove, you should be able to simply create another event listing for your party and invite everyone too it again.
If you want to give me more details about your event, or share the link to your event with me, I'd love to see how much more I can help.
May 5th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
FWIW, if the organizer has made the event “public,” then your attendance at the event is also public information (i.e. accessible to anyone via search, whether or not they are your FB “friends”), which may or may not be something you want the whole world to know about.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
My roommate set the event to private so everybody who hadn't given an RSVP was blocked from seeing it. I logged into her account, set it to public, logged into my account and RSPVed yes, then logged back into her account and set it back to private.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
There we go! Glad it all worked out for you.
Hope you enjoy your party.
May 6th, 2010 at 12:01 am
That acronym is a new one to me. Had to look it up.
I always insist that you should consider any information you put on the internet to be public information. Of course, we should be able to expect our credit card numbers aren't accessible when we buy things on the internet, this and others are extreme situations – but if you've put something out there, understand that you've PUT IT OUT THERE.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I have an event with no remove option, do you know how to get that type removed?
May 28th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
No remove option? That isn't something I've run into before.
To be certain, I would try navigating to the Event page itself, and looking for “Remove from My Events” underneath the event photo. You should be able to find it here: http://screencast.com/t/OWRkNDU2Y
Now if you're facing something different, why don't you show me a screenshot and I'll see if I can help you from there.
(A good tool for screen shots is Jing from http://JingProject.com)
July 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
i am the admin for a private event and i removed the event. does that mean that i deleted the event?
August 5th, 2010 at 7:07 am
does this remove me from the event or remove me from seeing the event?
August 18th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Your tips are great. Thank you.
Have a real problem I want to ask about. I accidentally created five separate event pages for the same event (Facebook kept telling me to try again later, when all the while it was actually creating the event and messaging people). In addition to embarrassing myself by sending out so many duplicate invites, now I have five separate event pages. I created it from a group page that I administer.
The best option would be to consolidate the pages, but I think that is impossible. The second best option would be to delete the extra pages, but no where can I find a “remove” link for the events. Here's a screen capture — http://screencast.com/t/ZTM5OTk0Z. I am trying to avoid canceling the events, which would then re-message everyone yet again and probably confuse people in the process.
Any advice would be very much appropriated. Thank you.
August 19th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I have a problem. I was normally invited to an event and I RSVP as “attending” the event. Everything's going fine till I accidentally remove this event from My Events. Now whatever I do I cant see it anymore. Although when I logged in from a friend's account and checked the event I can see it and I can see myself STILL Attending it. Is there any way I can add this event to My Events again?