Sweet Sixteen Party Canceled After 200,000 RSVP on Facebook

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<p>"For one Australian girl, turning 16 was not so sweet.</p>

<p>After sending out birthday party invitations to schoolmates via Facebook, the event went viral and close to 200,000 people received and accepted the invite.</p>

<p>The Facebook event included her address and told her schoolmates they could bring friends if they asked her first, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.</p>

<p>‘(It’s an) open house party as long as it doesn’t get out of hand,’ she wrote on the event page.</p>

<p>The party quickly escalated after more than 200,000 people replied that they were attending the birthday within 24 hours of the event posting. </p>

<p>According the Telegraph, police have charged a 17-year-old schoolboy who allegedly hijacked the page and reposted the event. A number of postings on the invitation suggest the event was hijacked by members of the hacker group, Anonymous.</p>

<p>The party was canceled and the Facebook page was taken down."</p>

<p>[Entire article from Daily Telegraph.]</p>

<p>Have any of you ever had (or heard of) one of these “flash mobs” show(ing) up at a party advertised on Facebook?</p>

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<p>I love it when something like this happens to somebody dumb enough to make their party a public event.</p>

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<p>Was it BYOB?</p>

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<p>200,000 seems a reasonable enough number. I don’t see what the fuss is about.</p>

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<p>lmao /b/ at work again.</p>

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<p>The girl should consider charging an entrance fee for this party.</p>

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<p>At $1 a head, that’s her college tuition paid for.</p>

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<p>heck no. If that was me it would be $5 at the door .</p>

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<p>Sounds like a fun party. And I doubt that even 2% of those 200,000 would come.</p>

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<p>Rent a giant park, buy a lot of food/drinks, then charge $10 or $20 per person and put the money towards college or something.</p>