Evite as a community - using a socio-technical perspective

In week 10, Richard talked about communities, and I'm going to analyze Evite from a social-technical perspective. Let me classify Evite several characteristics as described in the lecture notes.

Voluntary, not mandatory
Creating an evite is voluntary; a person can choose to organize an event through evite or not. Creating an account and replying an evite is also voluntary. An invitee does not have to reply an evite.

Interest-based, not place-based
Everyone who uses Evite has the interest of either organizing an event and/or being invited to an event.

Public and open, but CAN also be private and closed
Event organizers can choose whether his/her event can be seen by the public or just to invitees. If he/she chooses to have the evite public, then anyone who searches for an event on the search engine on the evite website can see the event. If the evite is private, only invitees will have the link to it and only they can see the event details

Unmoderated, not moderated
Evite is unmoderated. There may be people who occasionally checks that events and details written about the event is appropriate and follows its terms and conditions, but there is no moderator who constantly look at every evite created and/or gives feedback to each one.

Asynchronous, not synchronous
Details that are written about an event from an organizer and/or an invitee is typed, and then submitted to the server which then updates the webpage. Other viewers can not see text as it is being typed.

Activity-oriented, but MAY be topic-oriented
People who use evite are either people who are organizing an event or have been invited to one. However, it is possible to search for a party with a topic of interest (i.e. American Idol party, Grey Cup party, etc.), and view the evite with details of the party.

Small group, but CAN be large group
An event organizer can choose to send the evite to a small group of people, but it can also be publish to the public, therefore, inviting a large group.

Real name, but CAN be anonymous
The email address that an event organizer uses to send an evite is visible to everyone. If the event organizer also inserts the real name of each invitee, other guests invited an also see the names. However, if an event organizer does not insert the real names, only the email address is shown. A person who does not know whose email address it is does not know who was invited.