A California mom accidentally invited 487 people to her child’s birthday party even though she was planning a small party.
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Emily King from California made a serious mistake while preparing to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday. She imported her entire contact list and sent out party invitations to 487 people, GlobalNews reports.
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King, a 30-year-old teacher, was planning a small party in a San Jose park. She wanted to celebrate her daughter’s first year of life, but something went wrong.
Everyone received an invitation – from the parking attendant to the ex-boyfriend
“I made Evite for my daughter’s first birthday party. Evite says: “Import contacts.” I thought it meant import to select contacts,” Emily King said in a viral TikTok video. It collected tens of millions of views. Read our article on how to remove personal information from Google.
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Evite is a social scheduling website designed to create, send, and manage online invitations. Our article tells you how to easily delete old emails in Gmail.
“Evite imported all 487 of my contacts and invited them to my birthday party,” King said horrified. “He invited my boss, all my colleagues and people whose contacts were ever saved in my phone.”
King explained that some contacts are saved on her phone under questionable names, including “Derek rolled his eyes” and “Jess hit her car in the parking lot.”
“I want you to just take a second and think about all the contacts you have on your phone,” King said. “Then imagine that someone receives an invitation from you to a party.”
“Either way, I’ll have to go into hiding or get a new identity,” she joked.
King revealed that she is pregnant with another child.
“I was very excited because I am now 20 weeks pregnant. I wanted this day to be completely dedicated to my daughter,” she said.
Her plan was to send out about 50 invitations on the assumption that not everyone would come. But instead, she sent emails to almost everyone she knew in her adult life.
“I just went into shock,” she said of the moment she realized her mistake. Even her former romantic partners received invitations.
“Justin Delta Sky Lounge” and “Nice Guy from the Bar” also received notifications.
She said she had to uninvite even some of her colleagues, including names from her phone book such as “New science teacher, I guess?” and “David, the parking attendant.”
Reaction online
King’s story clearly resonated with people, judging by the more than 24,000 comments on her video.
People have been sharing the wonderful and quirky names they use to record their contacts.
“I would die if ‘Mark still owes me $100’ came to my son’s birthday,” one user joked.
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For her troubles, King said, Evite gave her a $250 DoorDash gift certificate to help cover the cost of food for the party. The social planning website confirmed it had added a correction to its platform in response to King’s video.
“Emily’s incident inspired what we call ‘Emily Hotfix’. “This update removes the ‘Select All’ feature in iOS apps,” a spokesperson said. “We are always learning from our users and hope this update will help others as well.”
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