Facebook Tips: Remove Event

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FacebookFacebookFacebookFacebook 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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Written and Published by JyoNah (Jonah Price)


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  • Claire Says:

    Cool! I didn't know that. Thanks, Jonah

  • Jonah Price Says:

    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.

  • CocteauBoy Says:

    Great tip, mister Jonah!

  • ryan charisma Says:

    I didn't even know there was a calendar that kept everything. thanks.

  • Jonah Price Says:

    Why thank you Mistah Troy. :3

  • Jonah Price Says:

    That there is.
    If you'd like to see it, you simply have to visit the events application.

    Glad to help. :-)

  • mickeyalice Says:

    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.

  • Jonah Price Says:

    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.

  • Audrey Watters Says:

    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.

  • mickeyalice Says:

    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.

  • Jonah Price Says:

    There we go! Glad it all worked out for you.

    Hope you enjoy your party. :)

  • Jonah Price Says:

    That acronym is a new one to me. Had to look it up. :P

    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.

  • AR Says:

    I have an event with no remove option, do you know how to get that type removed?

  • Jonah Price Says:

    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)

  • Shy_love_pinay Says:

    i am the admin for a private event and i removed the event. does that mean that i deleted the event?

  • Jen Says:

    does this remove me from the event or remove me from seeing the event?

  • CNYSpeaks Says:

    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.

  • Faridaezzatforever Says:

    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?

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