Facebook event read receipts ruin your excuse to never go out

Indicators that a user has viewed content are being rolled out to event invitations on Facebook. This is not good news

Is there anything that strikes fear deep into the heart like an invitation to the poetry reading of a guy that you met once, at a party, and who wore a cravat?

Thanks to Facebook introducing read receipts on its events, swerving the kind of soiree that's about attractive as a chlamydia diagnosis has just become a lot more difficult - and a more dangerous social minefield.