Retrieve your invitations sent to other email addresses

You’re probably gone through plenty of email addresses over your facebook career, if you’re a college student, you may have transfered and gotten a new school id. If you’re in highs chool, you have another address. Free accounts tend to get spammed and you end up deleting them and getting another one. Some people have had up to ten or twenty different accounts.

So lets say you receive an event invitation to your email, but you have changed it. This can pose a problem because when you go to click on the event it may make you sign up with that account and not take you to the event. Then when you click on it from your account it takes you to a null link. So you think you can’t get the event invitation. Well you can. Here’s how:

So how do you transfer the invite to your registered facebook account and regain that email mistaken friend? Facebook does not allow you to associate more than one email on an account. You can only have the main one. So when someone sends email to those address it will match up to your account.

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So how to transfer the invite sent to other mail address to the one registered in Facebook, and add the sender whose invite addressed to wrong email as friend? Facebook does not have a feature to allow users to add, define or associate alternative email address other than the main registered email, so that when somebody send invites to these addresses, it will automatically match to your profile. So Facebook has no mean to know that the another email is your alternative email, which also belongs to you and should link to your Facebook profile. So the workaround is to search for your friend who sent the invite to wrong address and request to add him or her to your Facebook profile instead.

The easist way to fix this problem is just to search for the users name from the email that they sent to you, but what if his name is John Smith and their are thousands upon thousands of returned users. Well, here’s what you do.

The link should be in this format.

http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=XXXXXXXXX&k=YYYYYYYYYY&r&v=2

Get the digits after the i= and put it in the profile page, like such:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXXXXX

Once your friend accepts you can get the invitation that way and then you can get rid of the old email.