Theme = Nothing

I ask you have we lost our ability to party for the sake of partying? Think back to the last few parties/events you have gone to. Are the majority of them not themed? Yes I know themes can be fun but I’m personally getting a bit sick of them.

I was trying to figure out what started this phenomenon rolling and these are some ideas I came up with:

• Facebook showed up and suddenly that was THE way to invite people to parties. Therefore since you are actually “creating” a party and “inviting” people the regular show up at my place or meet at this club doesn’t seem important enough so you feel compelled to add a twist.
• We have all become so busy that we had to chop out some events and decided to drop the ones without proper names.
• Some dork started the trend, it was a good time and it stuck.
• In order to give enough advance notice in today’s faced paced world people felt the need to annualize their parties and it seems odd to pre-plan a regular party a year in advance.
• There are too many parties now so people need to make theirs stand out

What do you think is the cause of this trend or do you even agree? If you take away all the theme parties we are left with category parties such as birthday, wedding, goodbye, and house warming.

Was there a “death of the house party” party and I wasn’t invited?