Sharing an event with a friend
Almost nobody walks into a room full of strangers on their own. If something on the events page looks good, the easiest way to actually end up there is to bring someone.
Sending an event to someone
- Open the event
Tap any event to open its detail panel. Everything about it lives there: when, where, who it is for.
- Tap Share with a friend
On a phone, your usual share sheet opens and you can send it straight into WhatsApp, Messages, Instagram, wherever you already talk to people. On a laptop, the link is copied to your clipboard and you paste it in yourself.
- Say something
The link on its own is fine, but "this looks alright, come with me?" works considerably better than a bare URL.
What your friend sees
They tap the link, sign in if they are not already, and land on that exact event inside First Six, with the same I'm going and Add to my calendar buttons you have.
It works even if the event was never on their own events page. Events are targeted by course and campus, so something for your degree might not show up in theirs. Being sent it by you counts.
The link only opens for someone signed in to First Six at your university. Sending it to a friend at another university, or to family, will not work: they will not be able to open it. This is on purpose, because your university's events are for your university.
What we do and do not do with this
Worth being straight about, because it is your data.
We record that you shared the event, and whether the link was opened. Your university sees this as a number on the event, so they can tell which things are worth running again. "Passed on 14 times by 9 students" is genuinely useful to the person deciding whether to book the room next year.
We do not record who you sent it to. There is nothing to record. The link is not addressed to anybody, it is just a link, and what you do with it is yours. Nobody at your university, and nobody here, can see who you shared with.
You cannot look other students up. There is no search box for people, no list of names, and no way to type someone's email in and have us contact them. We do not email anybody on your behalf. If you want someone to know about an event, you tell them, in your own words, on whatever you already use.
That is a deliberate choice rather than a missing feature. A searchable list of everyone in your cohort is the kind of thing that is useful to precisely the wrong person.
Can I un-share something?
Not exactly, in the same way you cannot unsend a text. The link stays valid while the event is on. If the event is cancelled or taken down, the link stops working by itself and anyone who follows it just sees the events page.
Is there a limit?
Yes, twenty a day. You will not hit it by using this normally; it is there so the feature cannot be turned into something it is not.
Does the other person know I shared it?
Only because you sent it to them. We do not add your name to anything, and there is no notification. It is your message, from you.
The fastest answer is usually one question away.