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Why do I have to use my e-mail address?
Your e-mail address is needed as part of the new-member registration process, which
requires that you receive and respond to a confirmation message sent to your primary
e-mail address. Your primary e-mail address will also be displayed with each
invitation that you send, so that your friends can verify your identify.
Note: It is possible that some of your friends may send you e-mail messages
in response to your invitations. Because each invitation will display your
Primary e-mail address, you may wish to select a personal e-mail address (rather
than a business or professional address) as your Primary e-mail address; you can
always add the other e-mail addresses to your JoinVite account for the purpose of
receiving invitations.
Do I have to use my real name?
That’s up to you. When you create and send a JoinVite invitation, your
selected friends will first see your event title, the event time, and your “Name”
entry. The purpose of including the “Name” is to make it easier
for your friends to know who sent them the JoinVite invitation. If you decide
not to list your real name, try choosing a name that your friends will recognize
as yours.
When I create or update a JoinVite invitation, will an e-mail message be sent to
my friends?
No! JoinVite.com is designed so that you can create, modify, or delete your
JoinVite invitations as often as you wish, all without sending e-mail messages
to your friends. For example, if you feel like a late-night coffee break but
don’t want to send e-mail messages to all of your friends, you can send them
a JoinVite invitation instead – and once that invitation expires or is deleted,
no one will see it.
I’m planning a party. Should I use JoinVite.com?
Probably not. As described above, a JoinVite invitation isn’t the same
as an e-mail message – so there’s no way of knowing whether your guests
will read it.
I have multiple e-mail addresses. Is there a way for me to ensure that I receive
all of the JoinVites invitations that are sent to any of those addresses?
Yes. Although you will still need to select a Primary e-mail address for account-management
purposes (and this Primary e-mail address will be automatically displayed with each
JoinVite invitation that you send), you can add the additional addresses to your
account, as Additional e-mail addresses.
Why can’t I tell whether my friends have read the JoinVite invitations that
I sent them?
In designing the JoinVite.com system, we wanted to make it as easy as possible to
send and receive the kinds of invitations that people otherwise might not make by
e-mail or telephone.
For example, if you’re planning a late-night coffee break on short notice,
you might think twice before contacting your friends by e-mail or telephone.
But with JoinVite.com you can create that invitation and make it visible for your
friends, without adding to their e-mail clutter or disturbing them by phone.
If some of your friends log on to their JoinVite.com accounts while your invitation
is active, they’ll see the invitation – and nobody else will.
But we also wanted to make it possible for JoinVite.com members to log in as often
as they wish, without worrying about other members “seeing” that they
have viewed particular invitations but not responded to them.
You should feel free to send as many JoinVite invitations as you wish, because they
will only be viewed by the Members who “want” to see them (as demonstrated
by their deciding to log into the JoinVite.com website). And you should also
feel free to log into the JoinVite.com website as often as you wish, without worrying
about other Members monitoring your activity.
If I sent a JoinVite invitation for a particular date and time, and someone else
sends me a JoinVite invitation for an event that overlaps with that time, does the
JoinVite.com system alert me to the potential conflict?
No. The JoinVite.com system leaves it up to you to resolve any time conflicts.
However, we’ve listed the “Invitations You Sent” and “Invitations
You Received” on the same screen, to make it easier for you to spot any conflicts.
(After all, if you receive a JoinVite invitation that you like better than the plans
that you had already made for the same time, you might want to cancel your own JoinVite
invitation and accept the other one.) But remember that deleting a JoinVite
invitation that you created will not send any notification to other Members.
If another Member has already responded to you and made plans with you, you will
need to notify them personally (by e-mail, phone, or otherwise) if your own plans
have changed.
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