the year of the e-vite

so if I didn't already have so much blood, sweat & tears invested in my current research topic, I'd run a study that posed the question:

does the advent of e-vite mean people are throwing more parties/inviting more people?

I've been invited to three holiday parties on Dec. 16. Okay, I consider myself & s/o (significant other--husband, in my case) reasonably fun people to have around, but I can't recall this ever happening before.

I'd postulate that e-vite is seducing people into either a) having parties they usually wouldn't, because while they may have good intentions, the prospect of creating, printing, mailing, and spending postage on invites has in the past brought them to their senses, or b) inviting a more far-flung list of acquaintances just because it's too easy to go through your email address book and say: what the hey, let's invite 'er and see where the chips fall!

Or maybe my sdq (social desirability quotient) just took a big boost for reasons unknown.

Somehow, I suspect the former.