EventPlus
We plan to Optimize Facebook’s ‘Events’ application to promote social event planning. What better
way to plan an event than with the help of all of your close friends at your finger tips?
Planning Social Events is Difficult
Problem Statement
Planning social events is difficult. It’s a constant struggle coordinating the most convenient times, settling on a practical location, identifying possible methods of transportation, and documenting who is bringing what to events. Additionally, there is no easy way of knowing how many people plan to attend a given event, which makes it difficult to determine how much of this preparation is really necessary. Unfortunately, there is no ubiquitous event-planning tool to assist in the process of event planning.
Background
Why Improve Facebook Events?
Our initial idea was to improve upon the existing Facebook application so that it helped the planners more. We thought including features that assist the host in the initial stages of planning would be a significant improvement to the existing Facebook Events application. We chose to improve Facebook events because it is the leading social networking site according to comScore. This would give us access to a large user base as Facebook has more than 130 million active users. While suggesting improvements to Facebook’s ‘Events’ application would guarantee that our work is used, it seemed more practical to create our own application using the existing application as a starting point as to receive unique downloads. We toyed around with having only a few select planners needing to install this application, but in the long run decided it would be better to have a higher download count if everyone is required to install it. This would give our app attention from the Facebook developers and the potential to be Interviews later also revealed that people liked using Facebook events since they could easily invite all their friends with a few clicks as most of their friends were already on Facebook.